Mar 15, 2022
Entertainment One UK Limited, the British company that owns trademarks and copyright to infamous Peppa Pig, filed a claim with the Commercial Court of Kirov Region (Russia) against individual entrepreneur Ivan Vladimirovich Kozhevnikov for violation of the company’s...
Mar 15, 2022
Director General of the Anti-Counterfeit Group, Phil Lewis reflects that during the height of the pandemic, criminal networks made huge profits from counterfeiting and used the money to feed other forms of criminal activity. The latest Intellectual Property Crime...
Mar 10, 2022
United States Copyright Office’s Copyright Review Board rejected Steven Thaler’s second request to register a two-dimensional artwork named “A recent entrance to paradise” in a recent decision. Briefly, the board said that only a human can author a copyrighted work...
Mar 3, 2022
What do you think when you hear the word Metaverse? A parallel world, virtual reality or maybe it’s something very futuristic or something kids do. I even once heard someone say, “It’s a fake world where you can buy stuff that gets delivered in the real world”....
Mar 3, 2022
Samsung filed a lawsuit against its former VP of Intellectual Property in Texas on 10 February 2022 alleging the illegal use of trade secrets by its former executive. Samsung filed the suit with the U.S. district court in Texas. Yet another trade secret dispute you...
Mar 3, 2022
This judgment concerns a three-fold application by the Defendants (together “KnitPro”) brought in the context of a long running trademark dispute relating to knitting needles. Background In 2013 the US-based Claimant’s predecessor began invalidity proceedings at the...
