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The UK Intellectual Property Office has introduced ‘interrupted days’ as it seeks to support rights owners, businesses and IP professionals amid the “unprecedented disruption” of the COVID-19 pandemic. 30 March 2020
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The German government is pushing for the Unified Patent Court project to go ahead, just one week after the country’s Federal Constitutional Court concluded that the Act of Approval for the UPC Agreement was null and void. 30 March 2020
Copyright
Depicting sports stars’ tattoos in video games does not infringe copyright owned by the tattoo artist or their licensee, a US federal court has ruled. 27 March 2020
Trademarks
Philip Morris International has failed in its efforts to have a UK e-cigarette maker’s trademark cancelled, after the UK Intellectual Property Office said it had failed to prove the reputation of its ‘IQOS’ product. 27 March 2020
Patents
Lisa Jorgenson is stepping down from her role as executive director of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, after more than five years. 27 March 2020
Copyright
The US Patent and Trademark Office could be given emergency powers to waive or change patent and trademark filing deadlines if an historic $2 trillion deal passes the House of Representatives and is signed into law. 27 March 2020
Trademarks
In a loss for Italian luxury fashion house Giorgio Armani, the EU General Court rejected its attempts to file two trademarks yesterday, March 26. 27 March 2020
Trademarks
EU law does not prohibit the owners of trademarks revoked for non-use from seeking compensation for infringement which took place prior to cancellation of the mark, the EU’s top court has ruled. 26 March 2020
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Tyre maker Michelin has accused a former employee of 13 years of stealing “enormously valuable” trade secrets and taking them to a competitor. 26 March 2020
Trademarks
The Art Newspaper has been refused a UK trademark registration for most of the goods and services it applied for, after an opposition from a New York-based software company. 26 March 2020
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