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A good advertisement doesn’t mean that there won’t be any backlash or digging into how the ad is made. This is reflected clearly in a recent scandal about a hit advertisement by Andy Lau in China when his advertisement over the Audi car brand got criticized as copying and pasting word by word to a post by another famous vlogger in China. The German luxury carmaker Audi advertisement featuring Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau got slammed heavily on China’s [...]
The Betty Pig has been a controversial character in the IP world as there have been countless trademark conflicts with the pink pig. Recently, the IPOPHL has revealed 2 trademark applications that will likely get denied due to the resemblance to the famous Betty Pig. On the IPOPHL’s database, there have been 2 new trademark applications filed to the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines that raised some eyebrows of many organizations worldwide: Application No. 4/2022/513528 is a composite mark consisting [...]
On June 14, 2022, Anaqua, the leading provider of innovation and intellectual property management solutions, announced breaking news that Osaka-based global document solutions provider Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. has chosen Anaqua’s AQX Corporate platform for integrated management of the company’s extensive patent portfolio. Anaqua is a privately-held company headquartered in Boston Massachusetts with offices across Europe and Asia. It is the leading provider of innovation and intellectual property management solutions. Over the years, Anaqua has grown exponentially through the merger with [...]
Moderna is one of the most searched pharmaceutical companies in the entire world in the recent 3 years. However, it is not just because of the company’s remarkable achievement in the creation of the Covid-19 vaccines but also because of the patent lawsuit between Moderna and the United States in particular and in the entire world in general. As we have already known, back when the Covid-19 pandemic just broke out of control in the United States, Moderna and Pfizer [...]
Many contentious plant patents have been introduced over the years in India and other countries. For instance, Indian cotton producers protested when Agracetus received a plant-related patent for genetically modified cotton cell lines in 1994, causing a public uproar. The agricultural community in India claims that these patents are harmful to the interests of a significant crop of national significance and might have a detrimental impact on the Indian economy. After this government joined the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual [...]
The Vietnam IP Law was recently changed. The modifications can be summarized in the 7 large groups of policies. So, what are the recognizable changes to the amended Vietnam IP Law? The recently promulgated Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Vietnam Intellectual Property Law has 7 major policy groups, including: Policy 1: Ensure clear regulations on authors, copyright holders, performers, and related rights holders in cases of assignment, transfer of copyrights, and copyright-related rights According to this group [...]
Elvis Presley was and is a legendary singer in the entire world. He was the performer that has captured the hear of millions and even billions of fans. At the peak of his career, he hosted a concert that was seen in over 40 countries by close to 1.5 billion people back in 1973. However, after 4 decades after his death at 42, the “King of Rock and Roll” and his followers, and descendants may not rest easy as [...]
The new Trademark Law of Myanmar in 2019 had been passed back in January of the same year. However, the Law hasn’t come into force now – 3 years later as the President of Myanmar hasn’t issued the required notification. However, rights holders in Myanmar and foreign countries shouldn’t have to wait longer as it is expected that the law might become effective at the end of 2022 or the beginning of 2023. Under the new trademark law of Myanmar, [...]
Recently, South Australian independent Federal MP Rebekha Sharkie threatened the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) with legal action after the distribution of flyers featuring her driving a wrecking ball through religious schools. The Australian Christian Lobby has used the MP’s face in the flyer. Even if the flyer carries good intentions, it will also likely be brought to court as it is used for commercial purposes and the rights owners of the photo have every right to file a lawsuit. For this [...]
The Hague Agreement goes into force in China on 5 May 2022. This marks the moment China turns into the 77th party of the Hague Union. This achievement demonstrates that China has profoundly partaken in the worldwide intellectual property governance under the WIPO system and China’s design patent registration system is authoritatively going worldwide. In China respectively and in the entire globe, in general, industrial designs play a significant part in ensuring that protection for designs is robust, competitive, and [...]
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