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June 05, 2025
Canal+ Nixes Cannabis Business's 'Canna Plus' EU Trademark
Groupe Canal+ has convinced European officials to deny a cannabis brand's trademark application for "CannaPlus" because shoppers might mix up the signs.Â
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June 05, 2025
Cisco Systems Stifles Challenge To European 'IOS' TM
A German company has failed to convince European officials to invalidate U.S. tech conglomerate Cisco Systems' "IOS" trademark, after it failed to demonstrate the trademark was filed with dishonest intentions.
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June 05, 2025
Bayer Contests Generics' Loss Claims In Xarelto Patent Fight
Bayer has accused several generic-drug makers of overstating the profits they lost when a judge in London told them to stop selling their own versions of blood thinner Xarelto to avoid infringing a patent that the courts later invalidated.
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June 05, 2025
Chinese Jewellery Giant Defends TM Against EU Challenge
European officials rejected an individual's bid to nix Chow Tai Fook's trademark for a stylized acronym of its name, ruling that shoppers would immediately notice the differences in the Hong Kong jeweller's sign.Â
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June 05, 2025
Barefoot Winery Blocks 'Mercur' TM Over Cabernet Brand
Californian winery E&J Gallo, which makes the Barefoot wine brand, has been able to block a German spirits distributor's "Mercur" trademark after it persuaded officials that consumers might confuse it with its cabernet sauvignon wine trademark "Mercury Head."
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June 04, 2025
Italian Denim Brand Can't Nix 'Always Run 4 President' TM
A Dutch fashion entrepreneur won his appeal on Wednesday to resurrect his "Always Run 4 President" trademark, overturning a previously successful challenge from an Italian denim clothing brand.
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June 04, 2025
Pharma Biz Denies Infringing Rival's Blood Pressure Patent
Roma Pharmaceuticals has fought back against claims that it infringed SyriMed's blood pressure treatment patent, claiming that its rival should not have received protections because the drug was not new.
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June 04, 2025
Sky Switches Off Chinese Audio Biz's 'Snowsky' EU TM Hopes
Sky has persuaded European Union officials to reject a Chinese audio company's "Snowsky" trademark application, proving that the logo might strike the same chord with consumers as its existing "Sky" brand.
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June 04, 2025
EU Copyright Rules Not Built For AI Training, Lawmakers Told
The European Union's existing copyright exceptions for data mining should not extend to the development of artificial intelligence models, experts argued on Wednesday in the bloc's Parliament.
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June 04, 2025
Fujifilm Can't Give Kodak The Hurry-Up After UPC Win
The Unified Patent Court has denied an attempt by Fujifilm to force Kodak to disclose the extent to which it infringed a lithographic printing patent, ruling that there is no fixed time period for Kodak to come clean.
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June 03, 2025
Pac-Man Maker Loses Real-World Game PatentÂ
British officials have ruled the company behind the Pac-Man and Elden Ring computer games cannot patent a method that gathers players at real-life locations because the application in question merely makes use of "computer programs running on standard hardware."
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June 03, 2025
Novartis Seeks To Block Rival's Generic Blood Pressure Drug
Novartis has asked a London court to halt a competitor's plans to sell a generic version of its blood pressure medication, arguing that a replica drug will infringe its extended patent protections over the treatment.
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June 03, 2025
UPC Stands Firm On Jurisdiction Over Pre-2023 Events
An appeals panel at the Unified Patent Court has denied a claim from a printing company that it cannot rule over disputes dating from before it opened its doors in June 2023, declining to ask the EU's top court to consider the matter.
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June 03, 2025
Italian Bike Gear Biz Partially Freezes UPC Case Against Rival
An Italian biking clothing company has put on hold one of its patents in a Unified Patent Court infringement claim against a rival, as a parallel spat at the European Patent Office means the text might change.
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June 03, 2025
AI Software Biz Sundae Bar Launches London Float
Sundae Bar PLC, an artificial intelligence software business, began trading on Tuesday on the London Stock Exchange after it raised £2 million ($2.7 million) from the sale of 25 million shares to investors.
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June 02, 2025
Peers Go To Bat Again Over AI Copyright Concerns
Peers voted once more on Monday to introduce an amendment requiring artificial intelligence companies to be transparent about the copyrighted works they are training data on, in the third round of pingpong over the issue.
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June 02, 2025
Belkin Can't Dodge Fine For Delayed Info In Philips UPC Feud
The Unified Patent Court has rebuffed an attempt by Belkin, an electronics company, to avoid a fine for delaying disclosure of how extensively it infringed a Philips patent, upholding the penalty even though the company has now provided the information.
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June 02, 2025
Italy Fashion NGO Bags Partial Win In 'Fashion Week' TM Bid
An Italian fashion association cannot get a full-fledged trademark for its yearly "Milano Fashion Week," after European officials found that it was nothing more than a literal description of the event for most of the categories the group sought to cover.
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June 02, 2025
NYC Cookie Chain Can't Bake Up 'Levain' TM In EU
New York bakery chain Levain has lost its quest for a trademark over its name in the European Union, failing to convince officials that the word is distinctive enough to identify its hefty cookies.
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June 02, 2025
Ginmaker Denies Imitating Winery Nyetimber's Label Design
A Devon gin distillery has told a court that it has not copied the "product of England" labeling of Nyetimber, arguing it did not perceive the sparkling winemaker as a rival — although it admitted to some stylistic similarities in their brands.
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June 02, 2025
EUIPO Expands Mediation Service To All Trademark Disputes
Parties involved in all levels of European Union trademark proceedings can now ask to solve their dispute through mediation, the bloc's intellectual property agency said Monday.
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May 30, 2025
Valve Scrapes Win In 'Source' TM Fight In UK
Gaming giant Valve Corp., the company behind the game-making software Source Engine, has convinced the U.K.'s ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ Office to trim trademark protections for "database engine," and "software" from a trademark application for the name "Source."
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May 30, 2025
UK's Status Quo On Exhaustion Regime Favors Trade Over IP
The government ultimately opted not to change the country's existing regime for exhaustion of intellectual property rights despite toying with reforms after Brexit, a move lawyers say missed out on creating a more IP-friendly alternative that would limit parallel imports from Europe.
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May 30, 2025
Bodum Hits Back At Shein In Coffee Press Copyright Clash
A Bodum unit has doubled down on its claim that Shein infringed the intellectual property behind its French press and drinking glass designs, telling a London court that it holds copyright for both products.
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May 30, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen Entain face yet more investor claims in the fallout from its bribery probe, UEFA face class action from Liverpool fans over chaos at the 2022 World Cup, and a venture capitalist sue journalists for misuse of his private information over a forged police report. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
Expert Analysis
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How The PTAB Landscape Shifted In 2023
Attorneys at Finnegan consider the impact of noteworthy Patent Trial and Appeal Board developments in 2023, including rulemaking, litigation, precedential decisions and director reviews that affected PTAB practice, and offer a reference for examining future proceedings and strategies.
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How 'Copyleft' Licenses May Affect Generative AI Output
Open-source software and the copyleft licenses that support it, whereby derivative works must be made available for others to use and modify, have been a boon to the development of artificial intelligence, but could lead to issues for coders who use AI to help write code and may find their resulting work exposed, says William Dearn at HLK.
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UPC Decision Highlights Key Security Costs Questions
While the Unified Patent Court recently ordered NanoString to pay €300,000 as security for Harvard's legal costs in a revocation action dispute, the decision highlights that the outcome of a security for costs application will be highly fact-dependent and that respondents should prepare to set out their financial position in detail, says Tom Brazier at EIP.
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IP Ruling Could Pave Way For AI Patents In UK
If implemented by the U.K. ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ Office, the High Court's recent ruling in Emotional Perception AI v. Comptroller-General of Patents, holding that artificial neural networks can be patented, could be a first step to welcoming AI patents in the U.K., say Arnie Francis and Alexandra Brodie at Gowling.
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Why It's Urgent For Pharma Cos. To Halt Counterfeit Meds
With over 10.5 million counterfeit medicines seized in the EU in 2023, it is vital both ethically and commercially that pharmaceutical companies take steps to protect against such infringements, including by invoking intellectual property rights protection, says Lars Karnøe at Potter Clarkson.
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Examining US And Europe Patent Disclosure For AI Inventions
As applicants before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the European Patent Office increasingly seek patent protection for inventions relating to artificial intelligence, the applications may require more implementation details than traditional computer-implemented inventions, including disclosure of data and methods used to train the AI systems, say attorneys at Finnegan.
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Incontinence Drug Ruling Offers Key Patent Drafting Lessons
In a long-awaited decision in Astellas v. Teva and Sandoz, an English court found that the patent for a drug used to treat overactive bladder syndrome had not been infringed, highlighting the interaction between patent drafting and litigation strategy, and why claim infringement is as important a consideration as validity, says George McCubbin at Herbert Smith.
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EPO Decision Significantly Relaxes Patent Priority Approach
In a welcome development for patent applicants, a recent European Patent Office decision redefines the way that entitlement to priority is assessed, significantly relaxing the previous approach and making challenges to the right to priority in post-grant opposition proceedings far more difficult, say lawyers at Finnegan.
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Why US Should Help European Efforts To Fix SEP Licensing
The European Commission's proposed reform of standard-essential patent licensing aims to fix a fundamental problem stemming from the asymmetry and obscurity of information about SEPs, and U.S. agencies exploring regulation of foreign regimes should support and improve these efforts, say David McAdams at Duke University and David Katz at WilmerHale.
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Shifting From Technical To Clear Insurance Contract Wordings
Recent developments on insurance policies, including the Financial Conduct Authority's new consumer duty, represent a major shift for insurers and highlight the importance of drafting policies that actively improve understanding, rather than shift the onus onto the end user, say Tamsin Hyland and Jonathan Charwat at RPC.
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What's In The Plan To Boost Germany's Commercial Litigation
Lawyers at Cleary discuss Germany's recent draft bill, which establishes commercial courts and introduces English as a court language in civil proceedings, and analyze whether it accomplishes the country's goal of becoming a more attractive venue for commercial litigation.
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Bitcoin Case Highlights Advanced Age Of UK's IP Law
An appellate court's recent decision in a case involving the copyright of bitcoin's file format emphasizes the role of copyright protection in software, and also the challenges of applying decades-old laws to new technologies, say Marianna Foerg and Ben Bell at Potter Clarkson.
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Future Paths For AI Inventorship After Justices' Thaler Denial
Anup Iyer at Moore & Van Allen examines the current and future state of AI inventorship in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision not to hear Thaler v. Vidal, including collaboration, international challenges, and the need for closer examination in research and development-intensive sectors.
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EU Ruling Highlights Strategic Benefits Of Patent Appeals
The European Patent Office board of appeal recently reversed the examining board's ruling in an application by LG Electronics, highlighting how applicants struggling to escape conflicting objection traps at the examination level can improve their chances of a positive outcome with an appeal, says Andrew Rudhall at Haseltine Lake.
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In A 'Barbie' World: Boosting IP Value With Publicity Machines
Mattel's history of intellectual property monitoring, including its recent challenge against Burberry over the "BRBY" trademark ahead of the "Barbie" film, shows how IP enforcement strategies can be used as publicity to increase brand value and inform potential collaborations, says Carly Duckett at Shepherd and Wedderburn.