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  • Blame Johnny Depp. With his cocky, cheeky, crafty characterisation of Captain Jack Sparrow in the four wildly successful Pirates of the Caribbean movies, he made piracy cool. What child watching those films wouldn't want to be a pirate – skirting round the edges of the law, turning their nose up at authority and plundering the vaults of big business?
  • The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit this week found Andrew Craig’s application for the mark Le Tigre likely to cause confusion with Kenneth Cole’s mark of the same name, but stylised as LeTIGRÉ.
  • The risk of genericism is a real one for many trade mark owners. John Wilks and Kate Oldroyd explain what you can do to avoid it
  • During this season of thankfulness in the US, Managing IP thought it was time to remind its readers of some patents of yesteryear, without which life might be a much more thankless experience
  • In the same week that Louboutin was denied a preliminary injunction in the US over its distinctive red sole, it has been revealed that the mark is registered in Europe
  • Friday’s much anticipated decision in Association for Molecular Pathology v the USPTO and Myriad Genetics came as a relief to those who feared an outcome that would undo “essential building blocks” of the biotech industry, said patent lawyers
  • A monthly column devoted to IP curiosities and controversies, named in honour of John of Utynam – who received the world’s first recorded patent in 1449 diary@managingip.com
  • The International Trademark Association argues that the Christian Louboutin v Yves Saint Laurent case “is vitally important to the development of trade mark law” in an amicus brief filed yesterday
  • Movie streaming service Zediva has been enjoined from operating until a lawsuit filed against it by Hollywood studios has been decided
  • In May 2010, then deputy commissioner of Patents and Trademarks Noah Shalev Shlomovits ruled that the cigarette brand Eva, produced by Bulgarian manufacturer Aktsionerno Droujestvo Bulgartabac is not confusingly similar to the Eve brand of cigarettes produced by Philip Morris, allowing Eva to be registered as a trade mark.