LUXURY LAW SUMMIT
Luxury companies are seeing a rise in IP litigation but some complain of public apathy to the concept of IP rights, according to research for next week's Luxury Law Summit.
LUXURY LAW SUMMIT 2015
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Paris-based luxury brand owner Kering has won a court order banning sales of counterfeit versions of its high-end goods by certain vendors in ecommerce company Alibaba Group's online marketplaces.
FORECASTING
Law firms are facing 'really tough' short-term conditions, but 86 per cent of them are expecting to see a growth in their intellectual property work, according to research from the Commonwealth Bank's Legal Market Pulse survey.
PATENTS
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The 450-lawyer, Boston-based practice is no longer to offer European patent prosecution from its London office after the departure of three patent lawyers to Cooley and the decision of the office head, Julian Crump, to leave to set up his own firm.
LONDON GROWTH
Cooley, the California-based practice that opened in London with 50 lawyers in January, has added a patent team from Mintz Levin.
COPYRIGHT
Proposals from the Intellectual Property Office and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills have called for commercial infringement of copyright to be punishable by a ten year prision sentence, instead of the current two year maximum.
ROBOTICS
Data protection is emerging as one of the main areas in which organisations need advice in the robotics sector - in areas ranging from the surveillance of staff at work to the use of cameras in drones and data retained by driverless cars.