This week’s roundup of the latest IP news includes tech-related trade secrets allegations, a sports drink showdown between football’s GOAT and a YouTuber, Katy Perry’s latest win against a fashion designer, and 2025 USPTO patent and trademark fee increases.
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21 November 2024 A former Google employee is accused of stealing trade secrets covering the Pixel range of devices and publicising them on social media | “I need to take unethical means to get what I am entitled to”, said ex-staffer.
11 November 2024 Pact aims to simplify and standardise global design protections | First time in over a decade WIPO convenes outside Geneva | Pledge to make it easier and more cost-effective for designers to secure IP rights across multiple countries.
22 July 2024 Logan Paul’s drinks company ‘used Olympic marks on Kevin Durant special edition’ | USOPC said infringement threatened exclusive deals with sponsors including Coca-Cola.
12 February 2025 The UK’s first-ever IP compulsory mediation order resolved the football club’s trademark dispute, increasing the value of ‘problem solving’ tactics over litigation, finds Muireann Bolger.