Herbert Smith Freehills

MARCH 17, 2023

The Government has laid the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (ECCT Bill) in Parliament which contains, among other things, draft amendments to the Companies Act 2006 to facilitate the reform of Companies House. An easy reference snapshot of the Companies House reform proposals can be found here.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 26, 2023

Last week saw some really interesting discussions on the blog. Swaraj announced the new initiative to discuss the history of IP law on the blog and kickstarted this with informative posts from Shivam Kaushik on Indian copyright history and its entanglement with Berne Convention. Her area of interest lies in IP and corporate law.

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Kashishipr

MARCH 23, 2022

In this blog, we will understand how social media is becoming the new territory for cybersquatting and shed light on the steps to reduce the issue on different social media platforms. The offensive usage of tags and the reservation of usernames on social media platforms are exceedingly harmful to the trademark holders.

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Velocity of Content

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Setting up notifications within the shared libraries then allows the team to keep abreast of any changes made within the library such as added documents, new comments, annotations or tags. By enabling sharing of documents from a central location, content can be accessed via corporate subscriptions and in accordance with license rights.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 13, 2023

For further details, please read the call for papers on the blog. Case: Burger King Corporation v. Australia rejects India’s Basmati rice GI tag application on the ground that it is not grown only in India. The deadline for submissions is April 18, 2023. Ranjan Gupta & Ors.

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BYU Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

a 501(c)(3) organization created to solicit and manage resources on behalf of Louisiana Tech University ("LTF"), alleged that a Florida corporation, Bel-Mac Roofing ("Bel-Mac"), violated numerous federal and Louisiana state laws by infringing copyright and trademark rights LTF has in the logo for Louisiana Tech's Bulldog mascot.

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Herbert Smith Freehills

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

For further information on the Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy or the Ten Point Plan, please see our previous blog posts here and here (respectively). For further information on the NSTD, please see our blog post here. For further information on the UK ETS, please see our previous blog post here. Green financing.

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