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Joseph Simons, chairman of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), has appointed Gail Levine as a deputy director of the commission’s bureau of competition. 27 September 2018
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The EU General Court has dismissed an appeal by a German company in a dispute over a trademark application portraying a chameleon. 27 September 2018
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The TCL v Ericsson decision has moved licensees a few steps closer to levelling the playing field when negotiating standard-essential patent licences, a US lawyer involved in the case told an industry conference. 27 September 2018
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The European Patent Office and the China National Intellectual Property Administration have signed a co-operation programme on a range of patent issues, strengthening the longstanding bond between the two offices. 27 September 2018
Trademarks
While there is no uniform understanding of free movement of goods and services on the world market, trademark owners should implement policies to deal with parallel imports, including in South America. Rodrigo Bonan of Luiz Leonardos & Advogados reports. 27 September 2018
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Traditional IP law firms need to wake up to the major changes that service providers are causing in the legal industry, or risk vanishing forever, says CEO of Brandstock, Volker Spitz, in an interview with WIPR. 27 September 2018
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While IP laws don’t protect advertising slogans in Brazil, that doesn’t mean they can’t be secured by other means. Paulo Parente Marques Mendes and Beatriz Vergaça Castro of Di Blasi, Parente & Associados report. 26 September 2018
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The relatively low standards for obtaining preliminary injunctions make Brazil a favourable jurisdiction to enforce patent rights in global litigation, argues Ricardo Nunes of Daniel Law. 26 September 2018
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California’s official attorney licensing agency has lost a cybersquatting dispute after it failed to prove ownership of trademarks that it claimed could be confused with the disputed domain name. 26 September 2018
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New Zealand-based satellite TV provider, Sky Network Television, yesterday urged consumers to avoid pirated content online and called for the introduction of site-blocking. 26 September 2018
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