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Amazon is not liable for online Louboutin counterfeits, EU court adviser says
According to the Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), Amazon is not responsible for the sale of counterfeit Louboutin shoes on its platform. The case dates back to 2019, when Louboutin, a brand known for its famous red-soled shoes...
Moderna bounces on the US government the counterfeiting allegations of its Spikevax
On last February 2022, the American biotech companies Arbutus and Genevant filed a lawsuit against Moderna, claiming that the latter would have illegally exploited their patented technology on lipid nanoparticles (LNP) to produce “Spikevax”, the vaccine against the...
Design Economy Report 2022: the future of design is sustainability
The Italian design, since the Second World War, has always been one of the most important engines of the economic boom. Today, in the midst of an ecological and digital transition (moreover accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic), the Italian design is once again called...
World Intellectual Property Day 2022 on IP and Youth: Innovating for a Better Future
Every April 26, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) celebrates the World Intellectual Property Day, which has the aim to raise awareness of the role that the intellectual property (IP) rights play in encouraging innovation and creativity. The first...
Ukrainian soldier filed a trademark application for “Russian Warship Go F**k Yourself”
The Ukrainian border guard of Snake Island, known for refusing to surrender to a Russian warship, has filed an EU trademark application for the phrase “Russian Warship Go F ** k Yourself”. The expression is the response given to the Russian navy by the thirteen...
Commercial agreement on the “Candonga” strawberry brand
The dispute between Planitalia against Messrs. Piraccini (from Cesena), Ceccarelli (from Longiano) and Giacovelli (from Bari) regarding the use of the registered trademark “Candonga”, associated with strawberries of the variety “Sabrosa”, has been settled with a...
Disputes arise on the NFTs’ world
Lawsuits regarding NFTs are arising. Among these, the lawsuit that Miramax, a US-based film company, has filed against Quentin Tarantino for, among other things, copyright infringement. At the basis of this dispute there would be the director’s decision to want to...
Overturned the verdict that condemned Apple and Broadcom to compensate Caltech for $ 1.1 billion
The U.S. Federal Court of Appeals has ruled that the $ 1.1 billion compensation that the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) was awarded in January 2020 against Apple and Broadcom, which were sentenced to infringe on CalTech’s patents on Wi-Fi technology, is...
Biden Administration publishes a draft statement on SEP Policy
The United States Department of Justice (DoJ), the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have jointly developed a draft statement on a policy related to the licensing of the so-called “Standard...
The US Department of Defense revokes the license to use Army trademarks to a manufacturer of faith-based military dog tags
Shields of Strength, a Texan company that manufactures faith-themed military products, is suing the US Department of Defense (DoD) after the latter required to stop the manufacturing of military dog tags with messages from the Christian Bible. Such products have been...