The significance of the dispute is not that it survived a motion to dismiss. It is that the court signalled a willingness to treat long-term investment in product shape design as a protectable brand ...

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Registered design activity appears to have softened across much of Europe in H1 2026, with four out of five major offices ...

While IP enforcement mechanisms are essential for fighting online infringement, these same mechanisms can be exploited by ...

WTR's Lifetime Achievement Award winner discusses the behind-the-scenes challenges of EU trademark reform, the growing pressures facing in-house professionals, and why the next generation must play a ...

The start-up’s newly launched social media platform is ploughing ahead, despite ongoing litigation challenging its use of ...

Brazil approves interim proposals that would treat counterfeiting as part of wider organised crime in a "significant shift" of approach to IP enforcement.

The Indian Copyright Office has held that artwork generated autonomously by an AI system can satisfy the originality ...

Experts say they’ve never seen a case quite like a new bilateral class seeking to void thousands of Schedule A default ...

Generative AI is weakening the customer assurances that customisation businesses have long relied on to avoid IP liability, ...

Proposals under the newly announced EU Innovation Act aim to unlock €10 billion annually in IP-driven growth. Register for ...

The CJEU has ruled that IKEA can lawfully prevent Flemish far-right party Vlaams Belang from using its mark, stating reliance ...