Nov 17, 2022
The International Trademark Association (INTA) is pleased to announce the election of Jomarie Fredericks as the 2023 President of the Association and the Chair of its Board of Directors. Ms. Fredericks is Deputy General Counsel, Chief Intellectual Property and Brand...
Nov 17, 2022
More money more problems October 27, 202, Elon Musk finally acquired Twitter, for $44 billion. The price tag brings with it a desperate need to increase Twitters revenue. Like most of social media, Twitters main revenue stream is advertising. Despite his efforts Musk...
Nov 17, 2022
Dior is the latest designer to struggle in the pursuit of a 3D shape trademark registration. In the recent decision: R 32/2022-2, the Appeal Board of the EUIPO upheld (in-part) the Examiner’s rejection of Dior’s trademark application to register the shape of its...
Nov 10, 2022
If you have not heard of OpenAI’s machine learning models DALL·E and DALL·E 2, the link is here: https://openai.com/dall-e-2/. It’s absolutely amazing, we would suggest you have a go before reading this article. The prompt “Hamster playing the violin out at sea by...
Nov 10, 2022
The myriad of intellectual property issues arising from the creation and use of deepfakes recently came to prominence when Apple announced that it had obtained a US patent for a method for the creation of deepfakes. It showed that deepfake technology has come of age...
Nov 3, 2022
The UK Government has launched a consultation on proposals for the legal changes needed to deliver the Intellectual Property Office’s ‘One IPO’ transformation programme. The proposed changes will update the law and remove legal barriers, allowing the IPO to be more...
