On 18 January 2017 Donald Trump’s legal team filed a trade mark request for his re-election campaign slogan: ‘Keep America Great’ (both with and without an exclamation mark) for the 2020 Presidential campaign. The campaign slogan has been requested to… Continue Reading →
Merck recently settled a patent dispute with Bristol-Myers Squibb and Ono Pharmaceutical over its highly effective cancer treatment drug Keytruda. As part of the settlement Merck will pay $625m as well as royalties to Bristol-Myers Squibb and Ono Pharmaceutical. The… Continue Reading →
The Shanghai Intellectual Property Court ordered two Chinese companies (motor company Deguo Baoma Group and fashion house Chuangjia Group) to pay damages of f $432,000 to BMW after ruling in BMW’s favour in a trade mark infringement case. Both companies… Continue Reading →
A report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) entitled “Equity in Innovation: Women Inventors and Patents” found between 2000 and 2016 the number of patent applications with a man listed as the primary inventor was more than triple… Continue Reading →
It has been suggested that over the last decade US government policies and legal rulings have pushed US investment money overseas to China. A huge portion of the US economy relies on intellectual property industries which support more than 45… Continue Reading →
Dawn Ellmore Employment’s blog aims to keep you abreast of current Intellectual Property (IP) and Legal developments along with industry and career insights and more. We hope you will find this useful and informative. For more information about Dawn Ellmore,… Continue Reading →
Amazon created a plan to protect its drones from attack from various sources, physical (natural such as lightening and manmade such as bows and arrows) and electronic (computer hacking) which is has now patented. The patent was filled in 2014… Continue Reading →
Disney and Pixar Animation were recently awarded damages by a Shanghai court after ruling that a Chinese-made film called “The Autobots” infringed copyright of Disney’s film “Cars”. The infringing film, released in July 2015, had grossed the equivalent of $863,000. Chinese producer Bluemtv and… Continue Reading →
Microsoft has applied for the following patent “Capacitive Sensors For Determining Eye Gaze Direction”. The device does not include any eye tracking sensors but relies on the position and orientation of your head to “detect” what you are looking at. … Continue Reading →
Facebook’s patent application for technology capable of recognising the content of images and the ability to flag them was recently published. The patented technology has the ability to spot “a logo that an advertiser may have incorporated into its advertisements… Continue Reading →
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