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Marrakesh Treaty: Ending the “book famine”
29 March 2019Contracting parties to the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled adopt national law provisions that permit the production of books in accessible formats, such...
WIPO cybersquatting cases grow by 12% to reach new record
29 March 2019Trademark owners filed a record 3,447 cases under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) with WIPO’s Arbitration and Mediation Center in 2018 as businesses reacted to the proliferation of websites used for counterfeit sales, fraud,...
EU Joins Marrakesh Treaty
12 March 2019The European Union has joined the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Marrakesh Treaty in a big expansion in membership for the accord.
Myanmar’s Trademark Law Passes Lower House
12 March 2019Long-anticipated Trademark and Geographical Indication Law is moving forward
1923 Passes into Public Domain
12 March 2019Hundreds of thousands of books, poems, films, paintings, photographs and musical compositions entered into the public domain in the United States
Cartier fails to monopolize 'LOVE'
28 February 2019Pawnbrokers in SGP and MYS trademark "Love Gold",