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Former Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie partners join firm’s LA office | Bring experience in portfolio management and patent procurement and licensing | Specialising in mechanical, electromechanical, electrical systems, life sciences, chemistry, materials science, and optics. 26 March 2024
Patents
A Wyoming-based company has sued Apple for the second time this year | Tech company alleges Siri violates its patent covering voice recognition tech | Suit targets Apple’s flagship products including iPhones, iPads, and MacBook Pros. 3 April 2024
Future of IP
Tech experts advise startups on routes to protect their IP at London tech event | AI, supply chain security, and freedom to operate discussed by senior IP heads and an investor | UK ‘should make every effort’ to reengage with the UPC to help the industry. 18 March 2024
Patents
Significant changes announced to Rules which took effect last week | Amendments include reduced timeframes and reporting obligations | India’s Patent Office granted over 100k patents in the last 12 months. 19 March 2024
Future of IP
The office’s executive director appears primed to face a tenure that could be marked by major changes—including the addition of SEPs, finds Muireann Bolger. 25 March 2024
Trademarks
The UK’s biggest supermarket’s recent loss in its dispute with Lidl is ultimately a costly failed branding campaign. Richard May and Robyn Trigg of Osborne Clarke examine why, and explain how brands can avoid the same fate. 5 April 2024
Copyright
As Meta prepares for a major upheaval down under, its withdrawal of Facebook News raises questions for publishers and copyright owners, explain Luke Dale and Chris Power from HWL Ebsworth Lawyers. 3 April 2024
Future of IP
The bloc’s Data Act is the latest to reference the familiar Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory principle—but SEPs serve as a warning against its proliferation, ask Katie Coltart and Bolko Ehlgen of Linklaters. 21 March 2024
Careers
Firm adds partner and senior counsel to Chicago office | Both bring experience with federal courts and the USPTO in commercial and IP litigation, trade secrets, antitrust, trademarks, unfair competition, and technology licensing matters | Moves follow the recent addition of two associates and of counsel in Washington, DC and LA. 4 April 2024
Future of IP
Despite inevitable ambiguity, published analysis on Japanese copyright law and AI will provide important insight until cases are decided in the courts, say Yoshiniori Okamoto of Yuasa and Hara and Jin Yoshikawa of Adams and Reese. 18 April 2024
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