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1 May 2024 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.
30 April 2024
30 April 2024
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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
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.
Diversity
29 April 2024 A new report produced on behalf of counsel from Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft and Disney, suggests that the patent field is facing a crisis due to a lack of diversity.
Patents
26 April 2024 Germany and France top cleantech innovator countries | IP acts as as “motivator” for companies to invest in sustainable products | Singapore trails green innovation focus with IPOS update.
Diversity
26 April 2024 Representation of women in IP matters but there is still work to do, especially in STEM fields, insist panellists during a WIPR Insights webinar to celebrate World IP Day | Five IP trailblazers—including from the Broad Institute at MIT, Harvard, and Tradespace—discuss the progress of women in IP.
Patents
26 April 2024 Delaware plaintiff best known for top-selling polymer sponges shaped in a smiley face that change texture in water | 3M bought another business founded by Scrub Daddy owner in 2008 | Complaint says industrial and consumer goods giant infringed by marketing and selling its toilet cleaning system.
Patents
25 April 2024 Seoul-headquartered company’s Energy division to establish global licensing model in response to widespread infringement | Plans include enhancing litigation capabilities to sue manufacturers that do not comply.
Trade secrets
25 April 2024 Business advocacy group challenges commission’s authority and the legitimacy of its new rule banning non-compete agreements | Rule change sets a “dangerous precedent for government micromanagement” | Lawsuit argues FTC's actions will negatively impact businesses and employees.
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