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Patents
Patent lawsuits saw an annual rise in the US last year for the first time since 2015, largely driven by a small number of high-volume litigants. 15 March 2021
Influential Women in IP
Proposed legislation aimed at closing the gap that women and minorities face when procuring patent rights could direct the United States Patent and Trademark Office to collect demographic data from applicants and make this public. 12 March 2021
Patents
Nokia has signed a deal with Korean tech giant Samsung to license patents covering its innovations in video standards, it announced Thursday March 12. 12 March 2021
Copyright
An Aboriginal artists’ group in Australia has urged Indigenous artists to stop selling their copyright, arguing that they are being exploited by large corporations. 12 March 2021
Trademarks
The Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 offers foreign brand owners new tools to remove problematic marks from the US register, but it could also pose challenges, explain Brett Heavner and Yinfei Wu of Finnegan. 12 March 2021
Patents
The UK high court has revoked two British American Tobacco e-cigarette patents for obviousness, concluding they lack an “inventive step” over an existing Philip Morris International patent. 11 March 2021
Patents
Australia has unveiled plans to expand the technologies in which international research and development collaboration will face increased scrutiny to protect the country’s IP. 11 March 2021
Patents
Computer-implemented simulations are patentable but the applicant must show that the invention addresses a technical issue, the European Patent Office has determined. 11 March 2021
Patents
The Federal Circuit has affirmed a Facebook win over Australian patent assertion company Uniloc in a dispute over an instant-messaging patent. 10 March 2021
Trademarks
EasyGroup, the holding company behind the "easy" family of brands including easyJet, has lost its bid to invalidate a trademark at the UK Intellectual Property Office. 10 March 2021
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