Maggie Ramage’s role in the IP team at Edwin Coe is to support and work in the trade mark registration practice. “On a daily basis I deal with trade mark clearance, protection, defence, litigation, renewals and any area relating to trade mark protection worldwide. “I work closely with WIPO, the EUIPO and the UK IPO, […]
China has slowly creeped up and overtaken substantially in the IP world; with Japan being the previous leader in innovation and IP patenting, we decided to get in touch with legal expert Katsumori Iseki, who discusses how the Chinese patent growth is affecting Japan and its business. How would you describe the current growth […]
A District Court judge in California recently wrote in a retrial for the Apple Vs Samsung case surrounding three iPhone 3G patents. The retrial date is set to take place between May 14th and May 18th of next year. The patents in question relate to the "black rectangular front face of a phone with rounded […]
By Eva-Maria Strobel, Partner at Baker McKenzie The trademark landscape is evolving rapidly, with both brand owners and trademark professionals trying to keep up. The changes are mostly driven by the steep rise in trademark applications — there was a 13.7% increase in trademark filing activity in 2015, according to WIPO — and shrinking […]
New Zealand’s High Court has ruled that the country’s main conservative political party are guilty of misappropriating the song Lose Yourself by US rapper Eminem. Judge Helen Cull, who made the ruling, determined that the National Party would have to pay NZ$600,000 (£314,000) to Eight Mile Style, Eminem’s music publisher. The political party had used […]
Around ten months back, the US Supreme Court concluded that a previous ruling in favour of Apple was unjust and sent the case back to District Court. Now just last weekend, a District Court judge in California wrote in a retrial for the Apple Vs Samsung case surrounding three iPhone 3G patents. The retrial date […]
Following the recent expiration of Amazon’s infamous 1-Click US patent coupled with the Federal Circuit’s remarkable ruling in Visual Memory, Nick Shipp, Partner at Kilburn & Strode, explains the need for more stricter specifications and how these decisions affect patent law in Europe. The recent decision in Visual Memory LLC v NVIDIA Corp. (Visual Memory) […]
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