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In 2008 the State of Kentucky, in the course of enforcing its criminal laws, sought penal forfeiture of the fulltiltpoker.com domain name on the basis that it had been used in the commission of multiple crimes within Kentucky. A seizure order was made and served on Safenames, requiring it to transfer the domain name immediately transferred to an account of Kentucky.

When IP lawyers in Africa want to know where IP is headed, our gaze often turns to Europe. And for many of us, there is only one place to go - the IPKat blog.

Article 4 of the Law No. 6769 on Industrial Property indicates that sounds can be registered as trade marks if they are capable of being distinguishable...

EPO staff, including examiners, have recently taken strike action, and protest demonstrations have been held in Munich and the Hague.

Following a recent decision Board of Appeal decision (T 1989/18), which failed to find any legal basis for the EPO requirement to amend the description of a patent application in line with the claims, ...

It's evident that Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, has divided opinions like few others. Therefore it seems inevitable that he would become a focal point in a trade mark dispute.

On Wednesday afternoon, the House of Commons' Delegated Legislation Committee approved the final piece of legislation which needs to be enacted before the UK can ratify the Unified Patent Court Agreement.

IP Think Tank podcast on Reverse Payments In US Pharma, Vintage Prior Art, The Ever Growing Prior Art Base And Utility Models

You may have seen household brands such as Weetabix and Cadbury using regal coats of arms on their packaging alongside their own trade marks.

A recent judgment handed down by Mr Justice Birss in Sealed Air Ltd v Sharp Interpack Ltd & Anor considers the way in which technical drawings in a registered design should be interpreted.

In a predictable blow to those wanting to decrease the costs of international intellectual property litigation, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit delivered its long-awaited judgment in Voda v Cordis on 1 February 2007. By a 2:1 majority, the Court refused to allow a US Court to determine patent infringement in relation to corresponding Canadian, French, German and United Kingdom patents.

We'll be discussing two recent EU trade mark decisions: one deals with a product shape mark, the other with a slogan.

Following on from the decision at the DABUS appeal hearing in December, the EPO has now issued the formal decision providing detailed reasoning. Not many surprises here over the preliminary opinion...

There was a time when intellectual property ("IP") was considered a grey and obscure area of the law, the domain of nerdy inventors, authors and the like. But our readers will know that IP issues...

There was a fascinating article in the IPKat blog about the AI programme AlphaFold recently. So, what is this all about...

When getting dressed in the morning we all think about how we want to present ourselves. We consider whether our clothes and shoes (and in this weather, a hat) go together to create...

We first wrote about a while back. For the benefit of any adults reading this article, TikTok is a social network for amateur music videos, a global phenomenon that started in China as recently as...

Few issues in the world of intangible rights contain as many legal uncertainties as do non-fungible tokens. Kat friends Mutlu Yıldırım Köse and Havva Yıldız discuss a recent decision rendered in Turkey, representing the first foray by a Turkish court into these murky legal waters.