Our latest round‑up also covers the DPMA reporting nearly 20% growth in trademark filings and new USPTO discretionary factors ...

The UK government has formally abandoned its preference for a data mining exception to copyright, with opt-out option for rights holders.

South Korea's largest fashion marketplace has announced a crackdown on relabelled and deceptively described products.

Brand owners are urged to include strong contractual restrictions with relevant stakeholders regarding the resale or ...

Although the foundations remain the same, recent cases and procedural shifts mean the UKIPO and EUIPO are increasingly ...

UK perfumer Jo Malone sold the rights to her name to Estée Lauder in 1999 – now a recent collaboration with Zara is under scrutiny.

Jellycat senior IP counsel Catrin Turner says tackling lookalikes demands a jurisdiction‑by‑jurisdiction strategy and intentionally varied IP rights, but cautions that evidence of consumer psychology ...

The responsibilities of in-house trademark practitioners have vastly expanded into brand protection, but budgets have stagnated, INTA’s 2025 presidential task force report has found. Counterfeiters ...

WTR analysis finds that US district courts are increasingly confronting AI hallucinations in trademark proceedings, and judges are responding with a range of sanctions.

It’s a provocative idea in brand protection, but is the best recognition of a job well done no recognition at all?

Six bite-sized news updates from the week, also featuring Gucci, Piddle Patch, Prada, Siroflex, Sky News Australia and Suno.

With growing discourse around expanding the scope of protection to GIs, it is vital for brand owners to be aware of changes in domain dispute mechanisms, particularly where the scope broadens ...