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Diversity and inclusion factors are tipping the hiring scales towards law firms with varied teams, and clients are influencing their legal partners to cast wider recruitment and development nets

Counsel from IBM, Nokia, Huawei and others discussed FRAND and questioned the necessity of transparency in licensing terms, at the Fordham IP Conference in New York last week

The similarity of two conflicting marks is one of the fundamentals of trademark law. It becomes relevant whenever two trademarks collide, whether it is during the application process, in opposition and cancellation, or during infringement proceedings.

Olga Plyasunova of Zuykov and partners examines the situations in which Rospatent will refuse registration of a trademark due to falsity or the possibility of confusion, offering advice on how to overcome potential rejections

On November 21 2011, Taguchi Industrial filed an application for registration of the trademark above, "GUZZILLA", designating "Mining machines and apparatus; Construction machines and apparatus; etc." in Class 7 (designated goods). The trademark was granted registration on April 27 2012.

The Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on copyright in the Digital Single Market was adopted on March 26 2019 by the European Parliament. The purpose of this directive is to protect authors' rights in the digital world. It provides general rules for protection and conditions of use for works protected by copyright in the fields of research, education and the conservation of cultural heritage.

Trademark owners who have assured their rights in Myanmar through the current best practice combination of Declaration of Ownership registration and Cautionary Notice publication are now being faced with a challenge deciding how to prepare for the imminent implementation of the Trademark Law, which is the first of its kind in the country. While it is certain that the Trademark Law will take effect in 2019, its specific mechanisms, which may be well-defined in many instances in the text of the law, are far from settled.

Last month, the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) delivered its opinion denying a patentee's request to enter post-grant amendments as a defence in a revocation hearing. Its opinion was based on findings of undue delay in presenting the post-grant amendments and unfair advantage in pursuing monetisation efforts in Singapore centred on the broader unamended Singapore claims, when narrowing amendments had been required to obtain or retain grant of corresponding patents in other countries.

Avoiding the double-filing of trademarks and designs and transferring .EU domain registrations are just two recommendations for IP owners in light of Brexit, as Beverley Potts, David Stone, Joachim Feldges, Keren Livneh and David Shen of Allen & Overy explain

While the theory around artificial intelligence generates a lot of interest, particularly for trademark specialists, it’s time to assess the potential practical impact on the law, say Lee Curtis and Rachel Platts of HGF