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30.Apr.25An article by John Richards about the recent decisions of the Court of Appeals of the Federal...

23.Apr.25L&P attorney David Brezina has been appointed to serve as a member of the ISBA Intellectual...

15.Apr.25On May 13, 2025, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will expedite Issue Dates for...

08.Apr.25Ladas & Parry attorney John Richards will serve as a moderator and a speaker during the 32nd...

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    If the UK Parliament agrees by March 29 to the Withdrawal Agreement negotiated by the United Kingdom and the European Union last year as modified by the supplementary agreement of March 12 relating to the border between the Irish Republic and...

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  • In Textilis v. Svenkst Tenn AB, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) held that the 2015 amendments to the trademark regulation (Article 7(1)(e)(iii) of Regulation No 207/2009), which limited the right for trademark protection if the mark consisted...

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  • Today, the Supreme Court of the United States overturned the decision of the Ninth Circuit Court in Rimini Street, Inc. et al v. Oracle USA, Inc. et al to award damages for costs in the amount of $12.8 million in a copyright infringement law suit....

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  • Today, the Supreme Court held in Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corp. v. Wall-Sreet.com, LLC et al., that before a party can file suit for copyright infringement, the copyright must be registered with the U.S. Copyright Office. Absent statutory...

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  • On January 22, 2019, SCOTUS held In Helsinn Healthcare S.A. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc, that a prior public sale of a patented product could destroy the novelty of a patent for that product even though there was no disclosure of the inventive...

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    The U.S. Supreme Court decided today to hear the case of Iancu v. Brunetti regarding the possibility that the Lanham Act violates a fashion designer’s freedom of speech in preventing him from registering the trademark for the term...

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