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IP risk management has never been more important

Saturday Opinion: Understandably, the challenges to rights holders posed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine are not a frontline issue, but they exist nevertheless. Businesses need to understand what they are and then mitigate them

12 March 2022

Russia's sanctions response takes aim at foreign IP owners

Proposal from top economic ministry is just one of several commercial risk-management issues to arise from Russian invasion of Ukraine

08 March 2022

Florida and Pennsylvania courts seeing rise in design patent enforcement amid counterfeiting crisis

Trend propelled the Southern District of Florida and Western District of Pennsylvania onto Docket Navigator’s 2021 list of busiest US courts for patent defendants

07 March 2022

IP cases form the biggest part of the Chinese Supreme Court’s docket

Top court’s IP tribunal, created in 2019, has become its busiest department, accounting for nearly 68% of all civil appeals

03 March 2022

Scaling and commercialising strategies: key forms of agreement

WLG professionals from Canada, China and the United Kingdom provide practical guidance on the necessity of seeking local advice when making agreements to commercialise intellectual property

02 March 2022

How to protect taglines in China

For taglines to be registered as trademarks in China, it is essential that they are both distinctive and creative. The Anti-Unfair Competition Law acts as a contingency for taglines that fail registration if they do not satisfy these conditions

02 March 2022

New Russian legislation may enable more individuals to own trademarks

Russia’s government has issued a bill that seeks to broaden the grounds of eligibility for trademark applicants. In doing so, it is hoped that this will enshrine a measure of equality in the registration process

02 March 2022

Lawful use of warning symbols is advised for trademarks registered in Russia

Trademark symbols enjoy many positives, namely in underlining the attractions of a particular product. However, they ought not to be used with unregistered marks, because there is a risk that doing so will misinform consumers

16 February 2022

Hublot successfully invalidates copycat trademark in China

The CNIPA’s decision to nullify a disputed mark on the basis of bad faith illuminates the grounds on which a registration can be held to have been obtained through unfair means

16 February 2022

The digital transformation of IP management still has a long way to go

Saturday Opinion: Though digital IP tools have come a long way, Anushka Arya and Nigel Wong of Rouse Consultancy argue that they have yet to make inroads into the most high-level areas of decision making

12 February 2022

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