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) […]
With the introduction of new EU trademark regulations which came into force on 1st October, Rose Smalley, Amy Galloway and Patrick Cantrill at law firm Bond Dickinson, discuss everything you need to know on the new rules, including all the challenges and opportunities they present for your business. Despite claims that further European trade mark […]
Masaki Mikami concentrates his practice in the field of trademark law, providing trademark legal services to individuals and businesses. Masaki is a qualified IP attorney in Japan, and is registered to practice as IP litigator since 2004. He reveals the ways in which his previous global marketing experience makes him the ‘go-to’ IP attorney in […]
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