The WTR Brand Elite dropped a point in the month ending 31 May, as stock markets around the world returned mixed results. Companies in the energy sector, though, had a strong month.
Rachel Cockburn Buhl, head of brand IP at biopharmaceutical group Ferring, reveals how she has expanded the function’s internal expertise to provide wider business support while having a positive budget impact.
The nominations window for the WTR Industry Awards 2021 and next edition of WTR 300: The World’s Leading Corporate Trademark Professionals is currently open. Act now to ensure that the important work undertaken by corporate trademark professionals receives the recognition that it deserves.
21 September 2020
In our latest round-up, we look at industry groups teaming up to fight pirates, a call for fake pharmaceutical stories, IP Australia announcing a new indigenous knowledge initiative, and much more.
18 September 2020
The threshold to demonstrate acquired distinctiveness is extremely high for colour marks; compounded by the many pitfalls intrinsic in survey evidence, meeting such threshold now seems near impossible in practice, even for the most well-known brands.
17 September 2020
Back-end work continues to improve the registry and trademark landscape. Subsequently, there has been a noticeable uptick in local brands pushing for the protection of their rights.
11 September 2020
WTR is now seeking nominations for the WTR Industry Awards 2021 and next edition of WTR 300: The World’s Leading Corporate Trademark Professionals.
10 September 2020
India’s newly-formed Central Consumer Protection Authority has issued extensive guidelines designed to regulate advertising and clamp down on misleading claims and practices.
08 September 2020
In our latest round-up, we look at outrage over a WWE order about names and likenesses, Bumble announcing plans to go public, how counterfeiting remains a problem on Taobao, and much more.
08 September 2020
With e-commerce booming, the global pandemic could provide an opportunity to transform the ways in which IP rights are protected and enforced online.
03 September 2020
In a victory for multinational pharmaceutical company Novartis AG, the Colombian Trademark Office has ordered the cancellation of a trademark owned by GlaxoSmithKline, finding that it had not been used in the relevant class.
03 September 2020
The Economic and Trade Agreement between China and the United States was signed on 15 January 2020.
03 September 2020
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