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World’s largest sports retailer looks to protect aesthetic designs as it shifts from value-led to specialist brand | Functional products can enjoy design protection if aesthetic choices have been made, says General Court. 16 June 2025
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Trademarks
The VP and general counsel for China & APAC tells WIPR how creativity and psychology help her protect one of the world’s biggest toy brands. 16 June 2025
Careers
The firm recruits a team of four from Deloitte to its London office, bringing expertise in brand protection, enforcement, transactions, and emerging technology. 16 June 2025
Careers
Eugene Goryunov, who joins the firm’s Washington, DC office from Haynes Boone, has led more than 500 proceedings before the USPTO. 16 June 2025
Copyright
UK government passes data legislation but rejects amendments to protect creators’ work from AI data scraping | Government to treat matter separately with ongoing consultation and eventual AI legislation | Rejection is a “stunning rebuke” and “more process and nonsense”, says Baroness. 13 June 2025
Careers
The firm adds an ex-Parker Poe veteran litigator with a strong track record in trade secrets and business disputes, and an expert in USPTO administrative law and patent prosecution from Potomac Law. 13 June 2025
Trademarks
Ruling marks first time Korean IP office defends foreign GI under free trade agreements | Decision based on similarity between marks, not on existence of economic links between the goods. 13 June 2025
AI
Judge rejected Getty Images’ attempt to amend its claim that Stability Diffusion could produce violent, pornographic, and CSAM images | Picture library turns to the Court of Appeal, previously claiming Stability was trying to avoid a “PR disaster”. 13 June 2025
Unified Patent Court
Unified Patent Court announces new case management system this summer | Release will be in two phases, with first phase focusing on opt-out functionalities and representatives’ registration. 13 June 2025
AI
Stability claimed Getty’s legal team was cherry-picking outputs after “hammering away at the model” to create infringing evidence, finds Marisa Woutersen from the courtroom. 11 June 2025
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