Muireann Bolger

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Muireann Bolger is deputy editor of World Intellectual Property Review and Life Sciences Intellectual Property Review in London, where she covers trademarks, brands, as well as wider developments across the intellectual property sector.

She regularly attends and covers major IP conferences around the world, reporting on the latest legal, commercial and policy developments and interviewing leading figures from across the sector. She has also co-authored industry reports with leading IP organisations, including the International Trademark Association (INTA).

She is the editor of the website’s Community & Inclusion channel and the annual Influential Women in IP list, which celebrates the achievements and contributions of leading women across the IP sector.

Originally from Ireland, Muireann has nearly two decades of experience reporting on brand developments, strategy, and wider business issues.

In her current role, she writes and edits news and analysis for an international audience of IP professionals, while also championing inclusion within the profession.

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The NFT revolution: can patents be tokens?
Patents
IP entrepreneur Erich Spangenberg has a plan to turn patents into non-fungible tokens and unlock ‘billions of dollars’ in untapped assets. Muireann Bolger caught up with IPwe CEO to find out more.   24 May 2021
EUIPO’s TMview database expands to Chinese market
Trademarks
The People’s Republic of China has joined TMview, the EU Intellectual Property Office’s free trademark design search engine, adding 32 million marks owned by the China National Intellectual Property Administration to the database.   20 May 2021
Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr welcomes new litigator
Patents
Courtland Merrill has joined Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr’s IP litigation practice as a partner.   19 May 2021
Copyright
In a win for Italy’s soccer league Serie A, tech giant Google has agreed to remove apps that enable users to watch unauthorised broadcasts of live games.   19 May 2021
Trademarks
Epic Games has hit China-based augmented reality creator, Nreal with a lawsuit accusing it of infringing trademarks for branded software used to create 3D and immersive digital content.   18 May 2021
Trademarks
A Heineken subsidiary has agreed not to challenge a craft brewer’s “Tropical Bay IPA” trademark, laying to rest the bulk of a US federal lawsuit.   17 May 2021
Copyright
The parent company of content management system WordPress last year rejected 83% of all takedown notices it received from copyright owners under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, it has revealed.   17 May 2021
Trademarks
An EU court has quashed a ruling by an EU Intellectual Property Office’s board of appeal, finding that it had erred in its analysis of a trademark’s potential to cause consumer confusion.   13 May 2021
Patents
A targeted TV ad patent owned by Samba TV is invalid according to the US Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Alice v CLS Bank International, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has found.   12 May 2021
Trademarks
A new era has dawned in the war against counterfeiters, as luxury brands increasingly join forces with social media platforms and e-commerce companies to safeguard their IP. Lawyers tell WIPR why the IP world should expect to see more of these collaborations in the future.   11 May 2021

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