Five things we learned this week: Cecil the lion, ruffled feathers, and more
Lions and magpies helped to dominate this week’s IP news. Here are five talking points plus some analysis on each.
The lion’s share
After the tragic terrorist attack on the offices of “Charlie Hebdo” earlier this year, a flurry of trademark applications for ‘Je suis Charlie’—the slogan popularised in the aftermath—were filed in several jurisdictions.
Seven months later, a similar trend is emerging and we are seeing US trademarks being filed for ‘Cecil the Lion’—despite the prized lion having lived in Zimbabwe before being killed.
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31 July 2015 This week the copyright dispute over the “Happy Birthday to You” lyrics heated up, while Vox Populi filed a trademark for ‘.sucks’. Here we provide some analysis on those developments, as well as three more.