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The WIPO Files I: the quest to protect user rights

Kluwer Copyright Blog

For most of its existence, international copyright policy at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has focused on the creation and harmonization of exclusive rights. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data. Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd edition. by Christopher Heath. €

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How about personalized medicine? Is the IP and Regulatory legal framework ready for this?

The IPKat

He has acted as an advisor to the European Patent Office (EPO), the European Commission, the European Parliament, the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Michel and extensively published Professor of Law.

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Trademark Tug-of-War: Shezan Brands Battle Over Trademark Registrations

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

Plaintiffs allege that Intershez, formed in 1996 and with a distribution agreement with Shezan International, registered Shezan Services’ trademarks without permission in 2004. The p laintiffs argue that after Intershez was dissolved in 2008, it falsely claimed ownership of the trademarks and used them to record with U.S.

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United Cannabis Corporation v. Pure Hemp Collective Inc.

Intellectual Property Law Blog

2004/0033280 (“Whittle”), into the specification of the ’911 patent and then not disclosing Whittle to the USPTO as prior art; and (2) UCANN’s litigation counsel, Cooley LLP, purportedly took conflicting positions in its representation of UCANN and another client, GW Pharma (the owner of Whittle). Patent Publication No.

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Donald C. Brace Memorial Lecture by Professor David Vaver – “User Rights: Fair Use and Beyond”

IPilogue

Professor Vaver also credited Chief Justice McLachlin (as she then was) and Justice Abella for influencing this trajectory in Canadian copyright jurisprudence, as reflected by their rulings in more recent copyright law cases such as CCH Canadian Ltd. And, while one is at it, why not for all intellectual property laws?”. [1]

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Landmark Trademark Battles: Shaping Brand Protection Globally and in India

IP and Legal Filings

7] CONCLUSION The analysis of the following landmark cases of trademark infringement, both international and Indian in nature, establishes the ever-complex and dynamic system of intellectual property law. 28, 2004) [5] Bata India Limited vs Chawla Boot House & Anr on 16 April, 2019 [6] N.R. Apple Inc. 3d 983 (2015).

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Kanye’s Got Beef With an Aussie Burger Joint

LexBlog IP

.” Ye claims the hamburger restaurant, located in Ivanhoe (a suburb of Melbourne), continues to have food on its menu named after the artist’s 2004 album and says neither his store nor products are approved for use by Ye. ”, intellectual property law expert, Ben Hopper told 7NEWS.