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April 17, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
The past week in London has seen the producers of West End show "Elf the Musical" face a contract dispute, Korean biotech company ToolGen Inc. bring a fresh patents claim against pharma giant Vertex, and ousted car tycoon Peter Waddell bring a claim against the private equity firm that backed his business. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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April 17, 2025
UPC Clarifies Rules On Saving Evidence In Sawing Wire Feud
The Unified Patent Court has declined to review an order that allowed a Chinese company to inspect and preserve evidence at its rivals' premises amid an infringement feud over a sawing wire patent, ruling that it was a necessary step.
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April 16, 2025
Nippon Paint Loses Anti-Rust Car Paint Patent On AppealÂ
European officials have revoked a car paint-maker's patent for a rust-preventing mix, ruling that skilled inventors at the time would have found it obvious to make the Japanese company's composition.Â
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April 16, 2025
3M Loses Patent Over Reflective Material For Road Markings
An appeals board revoked 3M's European patent over a reflective material that can be used in road markings, ruling in a decision issued Wednesday that it isn't inventive.
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April 16, 2025
Swatch Nixes Birth Control Entrepreneur's 'Andro-Swatch' TM
Swiss watchmaker Swatch has convinced European trademark officials to extend the earlier rejection of a contraception device entrepreneur's bid for the trademark "Andro-Swatch" to prevent the mark's use for advertising and other business management-related services.
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April 16, 2025
EUIPO Shuts Down Fraudsters With Copycat Domain Name
The European Union ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ Office has convinced a Czech arbitration court to cancel the domain name euipp.com, which the agency said is being used to trick people into thinking they are sending money to the bloc's genuine IP authority.
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April 16, 2025
Solar Vehicle Biz Beats Challenge To 'Go Free' TM In UK
A Dutch company that charges vehicles with solar power has fought off a rival's challenge to its "Go Free" trademark, convincing U.K. officials that there is no risk of confusion with an existing "Go" sign.
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April 15, 2025
Truck Aerodynamics Co. Slams Strikeout Bid In Patent Row
A truck aerodynamics company has hit back at a strikeout request brought by the competitor it is accusing of infringing a patent it owned by wrongly modifying its spoilers, arguing the case involves disputed facts and requires a trial.
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April 15, 2025
Ideagen Says K10 Vision Misled Clients With False Product Ties
Audit software company Ideagen Ltd. has accused the former owners of a business it acquired for over £19 million ($25.1 million) of tricking clients into defecting to a rival startup through false claims of involvement in developing a key Ideagen product.
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April 15, 2025
Google Blocks Chinese Tech Co.'s European 'Googtab' TM
Google has successfully blocked a Chinese company from registering the European trademark "Googtab," after trademark officials agreed that the public were likely to confuse the mark with the Silicon Valley giant's existing rights for "Google."
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April 15, 2025
Ducati Can't Nix 'Monster' Energy TM For Virtual Bikes
British officials have granted Monster Energy a trademark for its name over goods that can be downloaded virtually, ruling that shoppers wouldn't think that they were somehow connected to Ducati's Monster-branded motorcycles.Â
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April 15, 2025
MediaTek Gets Court To Speed Up Huawei FRAND Spat
Semiconductor giant MediaTek has convinced a London court to hurry along proceedings to determine fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory cross-licensing terms for a suit of 4G and 5G patents with Huawei.
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April 15, 2025
Arkema Wins 2nd Shot At Voiding Solvay's Polymer Patent
Materials producer Arkema can take another swing at rival Solvay's polymer patent after proving that officials construed the blueprint in multiple contradictory ways when assessing its validity, a European appeals board said in a ruling released Tuesday.
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April 14, 2025
VW Can't Keep Chinese EV TM Claim Out Of Dutch Court
A Dutch court has rejected Volkswagen AG's challenge to the court's authority to hear a claim in a licensing dispute between the automaker and the importers of a sub-brand of VW electric cars exclusive to the Chinese market.
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April 14, 2025
Philip Morris Beats BAT Unit's Challenge To Flavored Cig Tech
European officials have upheld a Philip Morris patent for a cigarette filter embedded with a flavor-enhancer, dismissing claims from a subsidiary of British American Tobacco that previous patents already revealed its key elements.
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April 14, 2025
Top Dutch Court Chucks Fashion Giant's 'Only' TM Appeal
A fashion chain has failed to convince the top Dutch court that a rival company's "Only For Men" trademarks infringe its protections over the "Only" brand, as they edge toward the conclusion of a dispute that stretches back to 2007.
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April 14, 2025
P&G Wins Eco Laundry Detergent IP Over Henkel Objection
The European Patent Office's Board of Appeal has upheld a Procter & Gamble Co. patent covering a clear, plant-based laundry detergent, rejecting arguments from Henkel AG that the product's transparent appearance is merely cosmetic and not a technical innovation.
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April 14, 2025
Italian Biking Gear Biz Defends Patent Over Wearable Airbag
An Italian motorcycling clothing company has kept hold of an amended version of its patent for a wearable airbag after it persuaded a European appeals panel to reject a rival's argument that the tech is not inventive.
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April 11, 2025
Knaus Forced To Recall Car Fibre Frames In Patent SpatÂ
Europe's patent court has ordered a German caravan maker to stop selling an infringing version of its "self healing" fiber frames and pay provisional damages of €100,000 ($112,834) after it couldn't reach a deal to license the technology.
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April 11, 2025
Lenovo Can't Block Rival's 'Yoges' TM Over Computers
British officials have rejected Lenovo's challenge to a rival's trademark application for "Yoges," ruling that shoppers would not think the rival products were somehow connected to Lenovo's Yoga laptop brand.Â
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April 11, 2025
Epson Gets 3rd-Party Access To Docs In Dolby's UPC Claim
The Unified Patent Court has green-lit Epson's third-party request to look at confidential documents from Dolby's audio coding patent infringement case, pointing out that the printer maker is fighting a separate claim over the same patent.
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April 11, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen law firm Michael Wilson & Partners reignite a 20-year dispute with a former director over an alleged plot to form a rival partnership, headphone maker Marshall Amplification sue a rival in the intellectual property court, and a commercial diving company pursue action against state-owned nuclear waste processor Sellafield. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new cases in the U.K.
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April 11, 2025
Hipgnosis Seeks To Revive Fee Dispute With Barry Manilow
A music rights company urged the Court of Appeal on Friday to revive its claims against Barry Manilow, arguing that it has a right to pursue previously nixed claims against the megastar singer-songwriter over a $1.5 million rights purchase fee.
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April 10, 2025
EU Adviser Calls For Flexibility In Heirs' Film Copyright Case
A European Court of Justice advocate general recommended Thursday that a French court allow the heirs of French director Claude Chabrol and screenwriter Paul Gégauff to bring a copyright lawsuit against the distributors of Chabrol and Gégauff's films.
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April 10, 2025
Microsoft Pushes Back On UK's Cloud Software Findings
Microsoft has responded to the concerns raised by Britain's competition enforcer over the cloud services market, saying that artificial intelligence is radically reshaping the space, and that any regulatory intervention could make the industry less dynamic.
Expert Analysis
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Trade Agreements With EU Will Still Be Elusive Post-Brexit
Although a post-Brexit transitional arrangement largely preserves the status quo between the U.K. and the EU through the end of the year, intense trade negotiations for key industries are still to come, with the possibility of a no-deal exit in 2021, say attorneys at Baker Botts.
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Surefire Marketing Methods To Build Your Legal Practice
Attorneys who take the time and the risk to showcase their talents through speaking, writing and teaching will find that opportunities will begin building upon themselves, says Daniel Karon of Karon LLC.
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Some Clarity On Inventor-Employee Compensation In The UK
The recent U.K. Supreme Court decision in Shanks v. Unilver swept away a perception that some employers are simply too big to pay inventor compensation under the U.K.’s statutory compensation provisions, and may offer some hope to prospective employees, say attorneys at Haseltine Lake.
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The Rise Of Patent Wars In Europe's Gene Therapy Space
Drug companies can prepare for increasing competition and a rise in contentious patent proceedings in Europe’s gene therapy industry by aligning patents, orphan designations and data exclusivity where possible, say Jane Hollywood and Frances Denney of CMS Legal.
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Self-Driving Vehicles' Neural Networks Present IP Conundrum
While autonomous vehicles' use of artificial intelligence through neural networks is highly innovative, the position of these networks within intellectual property has yet to be cemented, and a debate is ongoing as to whether they are best protected by patent, database rights or copyright, say Rajvinder Jagdev and Lin Liu of Powell Gilbert.
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Failure To Launch: The Patent Thicket Delay Of US Biosimilars
Almost 10 years after enactment of the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act, AbbVie’s assertion of 18 patents against three Humira biosimilars shows that patent thickets remain an obstacle to launching follow-on biologics and help explain why U.S. launches lag behind those in Europe, say attorneys at Axinn.
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Huawei Case Might Mean UK Forum Sets Global FRAND Rates
The U.K. Supreme Court’s eventual opinion in Unwired Planet v. Huawei will decide whether English courts are a proper forum for determining global fair license terms for standard-essential patents, and there are several reasons to question the English courts' creation of this approach, says Thomas Cotter of the University of Minnesota Law School.
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Must Inventors Be Humans? An Active Debate Over AI Patents
With the first international patents naming artificially intelligent algorithms as inventors filed this summer, and with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s query into whether inventorship laws and regulations need revising, the debate over AI is testing the boundaries of patent laws in the U.S. and elsewhere, says Christian Mammen of Womble Bond.
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Henry Schein Case Illuminates Maze Of Arbitrability Questions
While the U.S. Supreme Court’s Henry Schein decision strengthens the enforceability of arbitration provisions, the Fifth Circuit’s ruling on remand concerning arbitrability authority, exemplifies a need for careful drafting of arbitration clauses, say Andrew Behrman and Brandt Thomas Roessler at Baker Botts.
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Using Global Dossier To Simplify USPTO Disclosure Duty
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office can make compliance with its duty of disclosure less burdensome by allowing applicants to submit a list of patent families that are believed to have material information and defining electronically available records broadly to include the Global Dossier, whose use the USPTO recently encouraged, says Brian Dorini of InterDigital CE Holdings.
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The Unique Challenges Of Owning International Cannabis IP
Due to the cost of prosecuting patents and the uncertainty in obtaining and enforcing cannabis patents in foreign jurisdictions, building a global cannabis patent portfolio presents complex strategic questions, says Jayashree Mitra of Zuber Lawler.
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IP Protection Still Elusive For Data Compilations In US And EU
As businesses continue to increase investment into artificial intelligence systems, questions arise as to whether they can own or legally protect data compiled by those systems. Currently, in the U.S. and EU, obtaining copyright protection for databases is difficult and trade secret protection requires policies and procedures to establish rights, say attorneys at Mayer Brown.
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Perspectives
Artisanal Miners' Roadblocks To Justice: Is A Path Clearing?
Efforts to give small-scale gold miners, who face displacement, pollution and violence at sites around the world, access to fair and functioning justice systems have met with apathy from politicians and fierce resistance from powerful business lobbies, but there are signs that this may be changing, says Mark Pieth, president of the Basel Institute on Governance.
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How PTAB Is Applying New Patent Eligibility Guidance
Since the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office released its revised patent eligibility guidance in January, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board has been reversing Section 101 rejections at a higher rate, say Nick Anderson and Braden Katterheinrich of Faegre Baker Daniels.
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Keys To Successful AI Patents In The US And Europe
Unsurprisingly, the World ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ Organization recently reported that patent filings for artificial intelligence inventions are increasing rapidly. Stakeholders should be mindful of maintaining quality during this filing surge, says Drew Schulte of Haley Guiliano LLP.