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Tattoo copyright, Bacardi, Havana Club, IKEA, Marrakesh Treaty, Nokia, Judge Lucy Koh, NewEgg, more animal selfies – the week in IP

A video game maker being sued for infringing copyright in basketball players’ tattoos, Bacardi asking why it was stripped of the rights to the Havana Club name, IKEA losing the rights to its name in Indonesia, Peru joining the Marrakesh Treaty, a “wild overreaction” to Nokia’s IP news, Judge Lucy Koh reportedly being in line for a Ninth Circuit nomination, and NewEgg being denied fees by the Federal Circuit were in the IP news in the past week

February 06 2016

Trade secrets bill passes US Senate Judiciary Committee

The US Senate Committee on the Judiciary has passed the Defend Trade Secrets Act 2016, which included amendments that were suggested in hearings in December

February 03 2016

Now online: IP Stars 2016 trade mark rankings

The first part of the annual IP Stars rankings of the leading IP firms in more than 70 jurisdictions is now available

Managing IP Correspondent, February 03 2016

2015 in Canadian IP cases: patent

Managing IP is rounding up important intellectual property decisions coming out of Canadian courts last year. In two patent cases, the Court of Appeal suggested a new legal test for determining the relevance of a non-infringing alternative and ruled that a generic cannot make a claim for innovator profits under the doctrine of unfair enrichment

February 05 2016

Last chance to take part in the Global IP Index

The law firm Taylor Wessing is working on its fifth Global Intellectual Property Index, and the deadline to take part is Friday February 5

January 29 2016

A year of change in Europe

Regular readers will know that the EU Unitary Patent and UPC are set to transform patent practice in Europe. But do you also know about the reforms being planned or discussed for trade marks, designs, geographical indications, copyright, trade secrets and enforcement in the EU?

January 29 2016

Immoral marks, New York Times, Cuozzo, PTAB, Microsoft – the week in IP

The DOJ saying the Slants ruling was so broad it goes beyond covering only disparaging marks, The New York Times being criticised for filing a copyright case, the reason Cuozzo may not be successful at the Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit vacating a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision, and a Microsoft and Olio agreement over wearable patents were in the intellectual property headlines in the past week

January 29 2016

Amendments recommended to US Copyright Act statutory damages provisions

The US Department of Commerce has issued a report recommending amendments to copyright law that it believes would provide more guidance and greater flexibility to courts in awarding statutory damages

January 28 2016

Average of 11 Alice decisions each month in US federal courts

There have been about 11 Section 101 decision per month in US federal courts and the overall success rate has been 72.1% since the Supreme Court’s Alice v CLS Bank decision, according to an analysis by Fenwick & West’s Robert Sachs

January 27 2016

The biggest US trade mark cases of 2015

The US Supreme Court issued two rulings on trade mark cases in 2015, but the most significant opinion may have come from the Federal Circuit, when it issued a split en banc ruling in The Slants case

Managing IP Correspondent, January 26 2016

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