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3 May 2024 Ariana Grande, Drake and Billie Eilish to be ‘unmuted’ on videos | UMG and TikTok to collaborate on tackling unauthorised AI-generated content.
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Future of IP
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.
Trademarks
Olusola Aleru of Inventa shares a guide to securing or opposing a mark in the West African nation.
Diversity
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.
Patents Channel
The system is an up-to-date, reliable and effective way to protect design rights on the regional level, explains Arman Sauganbayev Gorodissky & Partners (Kazakhstan office).
Trademarks
Sustainability goals aimed at reducing packaging throw-up issues for the luxury sector in particular and 2024 could be a landmark year, explain Giles Crown and Elena Glengarry of Taylor Wessing.
Trademarks
The outcome of Coach v Gap and Penn State v Vintage Brand could have ‘serious ramifications’ for brand owners and licensing, depending on their outcome. Dyan Finguerra-DuCharme and Kate Garber of Pryor Cashman explain how.
Diversity
As Morgan Lewis associate Kandis Gibson comes to the end of her term as President of the Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia (WBA), she shares her advice for the next generation of lawyers.
Trademarks
From their origins in surplus plastic, ‘jelly’ shoes have been produced by luxury brands and become cultural symbols in Africa, says Inês Sequeira of Inventa.
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Trademarks
1 May 2024 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.
Careers
1 May 2024 New partner joins IP and patent prosecution practice in New York | Former Cleerly general counsel brings expertise in managing global IP portfolios.
Trademarks
30 April 2024 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.
Patents
30 April 2024 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?’
Careers
30 April 2024 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.
Future of IP
29 April 2024 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.
Trademarks
29 April 2024 Executive director João Negrão kicks off annual case law conference | 1,400 participants celebrate 30-year milestone for the office | EUIPO has grown from 10 staff to more than 1,300 | Top EU judge shares views on technology laws.
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