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World IP Day 2021 – Focus on IP and SMEs

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Every year the IP industry, led by the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) celebrates the day by raising awareness of the vital role IP rights in innovation and creativity. The value and safety of your intellectual property has become more important than ever before. World IP day is on April 26.

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Trade Secrets Without Borders: The Defend Trade Secret Act’s Promise as an Extra-Territorial Statute Finally Comes to Pass

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July 28, 2021) (finding that using an American company (also a defendant) providing design services and travelling to Illinois to work with engineers constituted plausible acts by defendants “in furtherance” of misappropriation ) and in Inventus Power, Inc. Cleveland), Inc. Buan , U.S. LEXIS 140744 (N.D.

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Intent-to-Use Trademark Application: Comprehensive Guide

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Zazu Designs v. headquartered company and a Japan-based web developer). The public interest at issue is “squatting,” or taking title to a trademark without the intention to use it. Additionally, merely communicating to another individual a vague Intent-to-Use a trademark confers no right to use a trademark. L’ORÉAL, SA , 979 F.