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Trade secrets

Insurance startup says AIG ‘throwing weight around’ with secrets lawsuit

Dellwood says AIG cannot pursue claims against company after individuals dropped from case I Underwriter provider accuses industry giant of trying to “crush a fledgling startup”.   3 October 2024

Careers

K&L Gates adds ex-Corr Cronin litigator in Seattle

Latest addition brings experience in high-stakes litigation and trade secrets | Litigator represents public and private companies in cases involving securities, blockchain, fintech, and cryptocurrencies.   3 October 2024

Patents

‘Paradise on Earth’: Hangzhou hosts AIPPI’s first China Congress

For the first time in its 127-year history, the AIPPI World Congress will be hosted in China. WIPR talks to the association’s Chinese Group leadership to find out more.   2 October 2024

Trademarks

‘It’s hard to find the perfect counsel’: H&M head of IP Björn Norberg

IP underpins the multinational fashion company’s business strategy, but finding lawyers to match its ambitions is a struggle, discovers Muireann Bolger.   2 October 2024

Trademarks

Snap wins early trademark approval for ‘Spectacles’ smartglasses

US court finds fault with PTO decision that mark is generic I Snapchat owner granted supplemental registration for ‘Spectacles’ initially.   1 October 2024

Trademarks

Design rights: Disclaimers and what corp lawyers want from externals

Experts from WIPO’s Hague Registry and in-house counsel shared tips on design rights best practice at Marques in Stockholm, writes Marisa Woutersen.   1 October 2024

Trademarks

‘I’m breaking new ground’: Mölnlycke’s first TM attorney charts a new course

Jennifer Godorn Wessman is leading efforts to protect the medtech company’s key assets. She sat down with WIPR to discuss her team’s challenges, expanding into new markets, and why lawyers are salespeople too.   1 October 2024

Artificial Intelligence

German court delivers first ruling on AI and copyright

Hamburg Regional Court dismissed copyright case against LAION I Non-profit covered by provision that allows data mining for scientific purposes | Broader issue of images used for training genAI models remains open.   30 September 2024

Trademarks

Amazon’s EU legal head: ‘We partner with companies to stop fakes’

The Marques conference saw senior counsel from the retail platform and the jeweller Pandora sharing a stage to discuss the counterfeits problem, reports Marisa Woutersen.   30 September 2024

Patents

‘This is a big problem’: The CRISPR controversy and the ‘mess’ at the heart of the EPO’s appeals boards

A request by CRISPR scientists to withdraw their patents over allegations of mishandling by the EPO’s Boards of Appeals has thrust a ‘fundamentally unfair, uncertain system’ into sharp focus, finds Sarah Speight.   27 September 2024

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