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  • In the recent Tommy Hilfiger case, the CJEU said that market operators may be forced to stop sales of counterfeits by market traders. Nick Rose and Beverley Potts consider the implications for brand owners and intermediaries
  • The Olympic Games bring a host of IP issues, including ambush marketing, Rule 40 and the tough stance the IOC and national committees take to protect their trade marks such as clamping down on hashtags on social media
  • Sterne Kessler has become the first law firm to handle more than 500 AIA proceedings, with a particularly strong showing representing defendants. Fish & Richardson is the top law firm for challengers at the PTAB, breaking the 300 petition mark
  • Data: 407 cases were filed in US district courts in July, with two new plaintiffs leading the way and entities such as Shipping and Transit, Uniloc, Sportbrain and Guyzar adding to their 2016 totals
  • The authors of a new white paper believe that almost 75% of pharmaceutical patent settlements at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board meet the criterion for inferring a strong likelihood of reverse payment settlement. The paper also suggests a rule to deter attempts to exploit the Board as a holdup device as well as discussing reverse patent trolls
  • PTAB Monthly Data and Analysis: July was the second-busiest month of 2016 for petition filing, but covered business method petitions fell to the lowest level since February 2013. Recent decisions from the Board include cancelling claims on a patent that had been used to sue more than 250 defendants
  • The Federal Circuit recently held that makers of biosimilars must always notify brand-name rivals six months before commercial product launch. Brian Klock and Kathryn Easterling of Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto report
  • The UK Intellectual Property Office has confirmed the legal status of three EU-related IP rights in effect in the UK and the government’s next steps for these rights ahead of Brexit. It remains unknown if the UK will ratify the UPC Agreement
  • The PTAB has ruled that Boxbee’s storage container tracking patent is invalid under Alice, in its third final written decision of a post-grant review petition
  • A suit accusing Getty of charging a photographer for her own photo, a war of words between law professors over venue reform, the companies with the most patent practitioners, the copyright issues at play when Donald Trump plays songs by bands that do not like him, and Stephen Colbert being told he does not own the IP for “Stephen Colbert” were in the intellectual property headlines in the past week