Aug 17, 2023
Published In a surprising turn of events, Burberry, the renowned British fashion brand, has found itself entangled in a potential legal dispute with Mattel, the maker of the iconic Barbie dolls. It all started when Burberry applied with the US Patent and Trademark...
Aug 16, 2023
Published TACO TUESDAY is officially free! In May 2023 Taco Bell filed a Cancellation action with the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and launched a star-studded ad campaign claiming that the registered TACO TUESDAY trademark should be cancelled so everyone could...
Aug 10, 2023
Published In a ground-breaking US lawsuit, authors Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay have sued OpenAI for copyright infringement, accusing the AI company of ‘training’ its language model on ChatGPT using the authors’ copyrighted works without permission. This legal action...
Aug 9, 2023
Published Effective August 10, 2023, and based on Ministerial Decree No. 56 of 2023, Qatar is adopting the Gulf Corporation Council (GCC) Trademark Law and its Implementing Regulations, replacing its current Trademark Law (Law No. 9 of 2002 with respect to Trademarks,...
Aug 7, 2023
Published The UK government has published its response to the transformation consultation which ran in late 2022 and ended on 6 January this year. The government sought views on a number of changes related to the Intellectual Property Office’s (IPO) new digital...
Jul 28, 2023
Published The Board of Appeal (BoA) has upheld the EUIPO examiner’s decision to reject EUTM Application No. 18622650 for the contested sign below due to a lack of distinctive character (Article 7(1)(b) EUTMR) for all the services applied for, namely, various...