Intellectual Property Magazine
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Rise in trademark filings at the USPTO
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Maura O'Malley, Editor
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Amazon barred from using its web service logo in China
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Amazon ordered to pay Chinese software firm$11.8m in compensation for infringing trademark covering ‘AWS’; Amazon ‘stronglydisagree’ with ruling and intend to appeal
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Neil Young sells 50% of copyrights to investment firm
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Heart of Gold artist joins growing list of big names in music selling rights and royalties to their songs to London-based investment firm
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Nicki Minaj settles ‘Sorry’ dispute
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Tracy Chapman bags $450,000 as parties agree tojudgment; singer ‘glad to have matter resolved’
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WHO DG cautions against ‘vaccine nationalism’
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus predicts price hikes in Covid-19 vaccines unless fair access is achieved
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USPTO’s Iancu condemns ‘unacceptable’ Capitol violence
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USPTO director decries riots from pro-Trump supporters in ‘strongest possible terms’; says office staff members ‘set the gold standard’ for excellence in public service
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Moodsters denied SCOTUS Inside Out appeal
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Infringement claims against Pixar’s Inside Out denied by US’s highest court; Ninth Circuit decision stands
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IPM’s podcast: Brexit aftermath special
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Richard Goddard, Andrew Yeates and Michael Hawkins re-join Ben Wodecki to analyse the immediate IP aftermath in the wake of the transition period ending
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IBM tops US 2020 patent grants despite 1% decline
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Data from IFI Claims shows a slight decrease in2020 patent numbers; non-US companies held majority share of new US patentgrants
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Germany halts UPC ratification after facing more challenges
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Two constitutional complaints mean plans to sign UPC agreement into law are put on hold
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University licensing patent pool ‘not anti-competitive’
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Patent pool for emerging tech including big data and IoT found to have incorporated suitable safeguards that are ‘unlikely to harm competition’, DoJ finds
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UK should follow EU’s lead on SME IP focus, lawyers argue
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As the EUIPO launches its SME IP fund,Nottingham Law School lecturer tells IPM that the UK should beundertaking similar ‘ambitious’ plans
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British Airways facing potential £800m data breach suit
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Over 16,000 victims are taking action against airline for failure to prevent mass data breach in 2018; fine reduced by ICO but reduction ‘does not cover any compensation for victims of the breach’
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IP5 reveal 2019 patent increases of 5.9%
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All offices except JPO report an increase inpatents granted in 2019
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Corbyn project aims to tackle IP rights covering Covid vaccines
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Former Labour Party leader decries vaccinenationalism at launch of new social justice project; Islington MP claims richernations hold enough doses to vaccinate their entire populations ‘nearly threetimes over’
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Amazon sites placed on USTR’s 'notorious markets' list
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Spanish, Italian and British versions of e-commerce giant ‘do not sufficiently vet sellers’ report claims; removal process described by complainants as 'lengthy and burdensome'
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Biotech start-up secures Covid licensing agreement
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InVixa wins lucrative licensing agreement with university
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Wuhan-based biotech firm subject of investigation
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Chinese company and three US firms accused of importinginfringing rHSA products and false designation of origin
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USPTO’s Iancu steps down after three years
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The undersecretary of commerce sent a heartfelt email to office staff thanking them for their work during his three-year tenure
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EU adopts countermeasure rules for IPRs in disputes
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MEPs back legislation aimed at strengtheningenforcement regulations in trade disputes concerning IP
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Ex-Uber manager pardoned by outgoing Trump
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Anthony Levandowski among flurry of Trumppardons; outgoing president says former Google employee ‘has paid a significantprice’ for trade secret appropriation
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EPO and CIPO make PPH permanent
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Offices ‘very pleased’ to make pilot programmepermanent; scheme began in January 2015
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EU General Court affirms ruling for BBQloumi trademark
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Cypriot cheese farmers dealt blow; General Court agrees with CJEU’s finding of no consumer confusion between Halloumi and BBQloumi
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Illumina defeats Chinese rivals in UK patent ruling
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Justice Colin Birss finds four asserted proprietary sequencing-by-synthesis chemistry patents to be valid and infringed by BGI Group
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German pharma firm loses EU trademark appeal
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Stada Arzneimittel fails in attempt to overturn EUIPO Board of Appeal decision; court upholds Board of Appeal finding that no likelihood of confusion would occur between ‘Optimar’ and ‘Mar’ trademarks
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COVAX project announces new vaccine agreements
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WHO and Gavi-backed vaccine access scheme announces it will obtain 40m doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 100m doses of AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine
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Google and French publishers sign ‘milestone’ copyright deal
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Google ends stalemate with French publishers; agreementreached on licences to show news on search engine platform
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Bitcoin ‘inventor’ alleges infringement against web portals
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Cryptocurrency white paper author alleges siteshave published document without authorisation
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EU launches consultation to improve GI scheme
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European Commission seeks comments on how tostrengthen current GI system; thoughts ‘particularly sought’ from trademarkgroups and agri-food policy authorities
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Grindr hit with £8.6m data fine from Norwegian authorities
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Dating app found to have unlawfully shared user data covering GPS locations; final decision by authority to be made later this year
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FACT finds 62% of consumers fail to understand piracy issues
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New research finds consumers are unaware of wider risks of consuming pirated content