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Diversity

Discover WIPR Diversity's Top 100 People in IP

Lists revealed for this year’s Influential Women in IP, Diversity Champions, Trailblazers and Change Drivers | Featured IP professionals span global brands, full-service law firms, boutique IP specialists and attorney firms.   1 May 2024

Trademarks

How can a craft GI make a lawyer work faster? By adding more complexity

The EUIPO’s craft and GI regulation presents many challenges, but provides a new and improved string to IP’s bow, finds Sarah Speight at the EUIPO conference in Alicante.   1 May 2024

Future of IP

Domain blocking and IP protection in the modern world

Ahead of a panel session at this year’s INTA Annual Meeting moderated by the Brand Safety Alliance, industry experts and panellists share their views on domain blocking and the recently launched GlobalBlock service.   1 May 2024

Careers

Former in-house counsel at health tech startup joins Perkins Coie

New partner joins IP and patent prosecution practice in New York | Former Cleerly general counsel brings expertise in managing global IP portfolios.   1 May 2024

Trademarks

AI avatars will ‘completely revolutionise’ the challenge of counterfeits

From celebrity ‘endorsements’ to rogue movie piracy apps, the technology is creating a new wave of fakery, hears Sarah Speight at the EUIPO conference in Alicante.   30 April 2024

Patents

USPTO requests input on AI’s impact on patentability

Office calls for public comments to evaluate tech’s influence | Request seeks insights into how AI influences prior art, obviousness | Questions include ‘should parties be required to notify the USPTO if a submitted disclosure was AI-generated?’   30 April 2024

Careers

Shutts & Bowen adds partner to Florida office

New partner joins from Fox Rothschild where she was a partner in the firm’s IP group | Trademark and copyright attorney brings “impressive” experience of brand protection across a variety of sectors.   30 April 2024

Trademarks

How to file a trademark opposition in Nigeria

Olusola Aleru of Inventa shares a guide to securing or opposing a mark in the West African nation.   30 April 2024

Diversity

Empowering marginalised communities with IP

A pair of gutsy Peruvian women showed how IP rights, a good plan and sheer determination can transform the lives of communities in the Amazon rainforest and elsewhere.   30 April 2024

Future of IP

NatWest lends £700k to software company in first IP-backed loan

Company secures capital from the bank to support business expansion | New loans aimed at supporting high-growth firms | NatWest allows businesses to borrow against software, patents, copyrights, trademarks, and registered designs.   29 April 2024

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