Cyber Squatters on Law Firms
International law firms face being held to ransom after issues with ChinaÂs trade mark filing rules.
Michael Coyle
June 14, 2017
International law firms face being held to ransom after issues with ChinaÂs trade mark filing rules.
International law firms face being held to ransom after issues with China’s trade mark filing rules.
Chinese trade mark squatters
Chinese trade mark squatters
In the latest development in this long running case between confectionery giants Nestle and Cadbury, the Court of Appeal has upheld a High Court ruling from January last year.
Huawei saw two landmark judgements handed down in its patent wars against Unwired Planet in the UK, and Samsung in China. The former saw failure with the potential Huawei’s affected handsets to be prevented from sale in the UK. Whereas in Quanzhou, Huawei saw a home victory for their patents against South Korean rival Samsung.
Failure in the UK – Unwired Planet v Huawei Technologies [2017] EWHC 711 (Pat) On 5 April 2017, the High Court of England and Wales
China’s ZTE Corporation overtook its crosstown rival Huawei Technologies as the biggest filer of international patent applications via WIPO in 2016 and U.S.-based Qualcomm Inc.
World Intellectual Property Organisation publish its 2016 statistics for filings under the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
A patent dispute threatening to stop Apple being able to sell the iPhone 6 or 6 Plus in China has been concluded with a win