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Federal Court of Appeal affirms new trademark owners not required to account for non-use

The Court has affirmed there is no obligation on new trademark owners to account for non-use prior to the acquisition of the trademark in question.

Is your material material? The new test for leave to file new evidence in Trademarks Opposition Board appeals

A decision of the Federal Court provides guidance on new approach to deciding leave to adduce additional evidence in Trademark appeal cases.

Pre-trial trademark injunctions: hard to get but worth the squeeze?

Pre-trial injunctions are highly desirable remedies for halting trademark infringement while litigation is ongoing.

German and U.K. courts diverge on whether AI models infringe copyright  

When it comes to AI and copyright, recent rulings show there is no global consensus on whether training models infringe.

Stability AI successfully defends Getty Images’ U.K. copyright infringement claim

The U.K. High Court has ruled that a generative AI tool that creates high-quality images from text descriptions, is not an “infringing article”.