The High Court of Delhi held in July 2018 that the designer's red sole is not protectable as a trademark in India

A decision last year from the highest body within the Turkish Court of Appeal system held that the addition of a house mark does not mitigate likelihood of confusion.

It is unclear whether a fee will be charged for these re-filings.

On May 9, the Supreme Court held, in a 6-3 decision authored by Justice Kagan, that a copyright infringement plaintiff may recover damages that occurred far more than three years before a lawsuit's filing.

The Orrin G. Hatch-Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act (MMA) was signed into law on October 11, 2018. As the name suggests, the law is aimed at updating music copyright laws for the digital age.

As January 2025 draws to a close, five new states have taken their places in the patchwork of U.S. comprehensive privacy laws. The laws of Delaware, Iowa, Nebraska, and New Hampshire took effect on New Year's Day...

On November 13, 2019, the French government published Order No. 2019-1169, followed by an implementing Decree on December 9, 2019.

To date, comprehensive U.S. state privacy laws, with limited exception, do not provide private rights of action. Enterprising plaintiffs' lawyers, however, have invoked the federal Video Privacy Protection Act ("VPPA")...

In what is being hailed as a landmark decision, the Canadian Supreme Court has affirmed a holding granting a global injunction against Google, even though it was a non-party to the underlying infringement action, requiring it to remove links from infringing websites from its global search results.

A nine-year tussle between NBA legend Michael Jordan and an infamously successful cyber squatter, Qiaodan Sport Co. Ltd., for unauthorized use of Jordan's surname in Chinese culminated in the Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People's Court ...

Germany is known as a jurisdiction where ex parte preliminary injunctions are relatively easy to obtain.

The photograph at issue was of digital content creator Linh Niller Huyn, and was taken by photographer and plaintiff Mark Iantosca during New York Fashion Week in February 2019.

Successful toys are very often miniature recreations of persons or objects in the real world or from an entertainment property. Whether or not the toy maker needs permission (a license) to make that recreation depends on several factors.

The TTAB disregarded that claim, noting that Moreno was a reseller, not a manufacturer, and finding that the quality control was therefore inherent in the license itself.

As of December 1, 2019, it became necessary for online service providers to renew their DMCA agent designation with the U.S. Copyright Office in order to avail themselves of the protections offered by the DMCA Safe Harbor.

The USPTO now requires all applicants and registrants to provide their physical street address in order to establish their "domicile."

The China National Intellectual Property Administration ("CNIPA") dealt two heavy blows to Facebook in February and March of this year.

The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) recently held that the actual use of a trademark does not affect the extent to which an owner of an EUTM registration can enforce its rights...

The Korean Supreme Court issued a landmark decision holding that the use of a junior mark identical or similar to a senior registered trademark constitutes infringement if the junior use...

The USPTO Federal Register is requesting comments from interested parties on whether the U.S. should join as a party to the WIPO Riyadh Design Law Treaty and any impacts from doing so. The deadline for submitting comments is June 11.