A whistle-stop tour of Letters of Consent in trade mark proceedings
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Artists and their future copyrights in the new era of AI: OpenAI suspends its new ChatGPT voice “Sky” that sounds similar to Scarlett Johansson’s voice
- Arts & Entertainment
- Celebrity
- Brand Valuation
Wolters Kluwer Trade Mark Blog- Liar liar… pants on fire! High Court of Ireland finds in favour of Diesel and overturns a trade mark opposition on appeal
- Fashion
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Redirecting into the world of the bitsquat
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- Domains
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IP and digital due diligence: constructing a domain policy that Matches brand owner requirements
- Fashion
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Qatar joins international trade mark system
- IP Basics
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Key facts about the GlobalBlock scheme: a consideration for domain management and online brand protection clients
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CITMA article- BeReal-istic: UKIPO decision in trade mark opposition is a warning to brands
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Targeting the banks: a case study of the UK financial brand abuse domain landscape
- Finance
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Greenwashing 101: Navigating current regulation and future legislation
- Advertising
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IP and the Sustainable Development Goals: Building our common future with innovation and creativity
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How to stop your automotive trade mark crashing and burning
- Automotive
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Tracking the tracker: a case study of profiling a scam website
- Domains
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Louis Vuitton takes an L in trade marks battle
- Fashion
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Brand protection: clarifying the terminology
- IP Basics
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A score for TEAM USA in the EU
- Sport
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Wolters Kluwer Trade Mark Blog- Lidl v Tesco: evergreening and non-use revocation
- Food & Drink
- Look-a-likes
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You’re so fake: the ugly side of beauty product sales
- Beauty
- Anti-Counterfeiting
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“My brand’s bigger than your brand” – Quantifying brand strength using benchmarking analyses
- Finance
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Tech companies all live in a trade mark submarine
- IP Basics
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A mitwitter-up requiring a quick fitwitter
- Tech
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Greenwashing 101: What is it and how do you avoid it?
- Advertising
- Fashion
- Food & Drink
EUTM owners relying on these to provide protection in Jersey urged to act
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Wolters Kluwer Trade Mark Blog- Lidl v Tesco: the Court of Appeal reverses copyright infringement decision
- Food & Drink
- Look-a-likes
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Japan and Korea to usher in an age of consent in trade mark law
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The disguised harm of dupe culture
- Beauty
- Fashion
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Tracking the UK trade in fakes – Ins and outs
- Anti-Counterfeiting
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Wolters Kluwer Trade Mark Blog- The UK Court of Appeal allows a Lidl trade mark to go a long way
- Food & Drink
- Look-a-likes
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The Global Legal Post article- Quality and authenticity at issue in high-profile Chanel and WGACA case
- Fashion
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Tracking the UK trade in fakes – Counterfeit hotspots
- Anti-Counterfeiting
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No easyWay out: finding of no infringement in Nuclei’s EASY OFFICES leads to revocation of easyGroup’s trade marks
- Trade Marks
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Wolters Kluwer Trade Mark Blog- The finale of the Classic Coach Company case in Dutch Supreme Court
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A Lidl trade mark goes a long way...
- Food & Drink
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Samsung v Swatch: the UK Court of Appeal departs from the EU approach to the E-Commerce Directive ‘safe harbour defence’
- Brexit
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AI or .AI? Depends if you are looking to register a domain in Anguilla or not
- Domains
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Web2/Web3 crossover – Investigations and clustering
- Tech
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Drier than a desert – the topic of trade mark deadlines
- Trade Marks
Web2/Web3 crossover: Brand-related crypto-infringements
- Tech
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Wolters Kluwer Trade Mark Blog- UK trade mark law post-Brexit: the UK Court of Appeal diverges from the CJEU in statutory acquiescence
- Brexit
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Changes to Companies Act boost brand owners
- IP Basics
Wolters Kluwer Trade Mark Blog- UK trade mark law post-Brexit: the Advancetrack case examines REULA and the TMA 1994
- Brexit
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Finding the fakes: another application of keyword-based filtering
- Anti-Counterfeiting
- Domains
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Health scam websites: identifying related domains using clustering techniques
- Pharma
- Domains
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Website impersonations: a case study of domain names targeting the UK government
- Domains
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Use it or lose it: TESTAROSSA no longer a valid EU trade mark for Ferrari for ‘automobiles’
- Automotive
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Registrable transactions and recordals – naughty, but nice
- IP Basics
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The crossover: two recent developments in Web2/Web3 interaction
- Tech
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Delta Sky Club flying high after defeating revocation claim
- Travel
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No tickbox affair: TikTok unsuccessfully opposes a trade mark application
- Arts & Entertainment
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Channelling trade mark protection: trade marks in the Channel Islands
- IP Basics
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Basmati: CJEU case offers more than a grain of truth about dates for relevant grounds disputes at the EUIPO
- Brexit
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Superheroes at the UKIPO/EUIPO in 2023 – BATMAN, SUPERMAN and BLACK ADAM
- Arts & Entertainment
- Celebrity
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A tasty new TLD: the launch of .food
- Food & Drink
- Domains
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BATMAN RETURNS: to secure inherent distinctive character in the Batman Logo
- Arts & Entertainment
- Celebrity
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Utilisation of relevance keywords for prioritising results in brand monitoring
- Brand Protection
Think globally, act locally: An overview of infringement hotspots around the world
- Anti-Counterfeiting
- Domains
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No Cure? The brand owner’s battle to identify and stop counterfeit networks
- Arts & Entertainment
- Celebrity
- Anti-Counterfeiting
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The power of trade marks in the fashion industry
- Fashion
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Walkers’ poppadom conundrum: when tax and IP laws meet
- Food & Drink
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“And the award goes to…”: the online presence of the Oscars best-picture nominees
- Arts & Entertainment
- Brand Protection
AI-t's raining brands: The top generative-AI brands in 2024
- AI
- Domains
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A point (pint?) for Aldi but the lookalikes battle goes on
- Food & Drink
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Adidas vs. Puma: the sibling rivalry and trade mark disputes
- Fashion
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Once more unto the breach – bicycle brand trade mark registration is held to have been filed in bad faith as it breached a coexistence agreement
- Sport
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Seek and ye shall (not necessarily) find: the dangers of relying (just) on SEO
- Advertising
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IP fishing in the Yemen
- IP Basics
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Coining Success: Trends in the online brand prominence and overall value of cryptocurrencies
- Finance
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What’s in a (nick)name? A concept: FRIDA KAHLO v FRIDU
- Arts & Entertainment
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Searching for Google Gemini: a case study in handling false positives in brand monitoring
- Tech
- Domains
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A review of the current state of the new-gTLD programme – Dot-brands
- Domains
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Pass the liability to the left hand side: Dutch court finds Fruugo marketplace not liable
- Advertising
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BUZZ! A study of the online prominence and sentiment of the top 100 global brands
- Brand Valuation
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A New Year’s makeover for fair use - just in time
- AI
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IDN-tifying trends: insights from the set of non-Latin domain names
- Domains
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The shape of things to .com: An overview of domain availability
- Domains
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