IP News

Each year on April 26, we celebrate the World Intellectual Property Day. Established in 2000 by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the World...
Read more

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has begun issuing electronic patent grants (eGrants) for all patents as of 18 April 2023. The...
Read more

The Applicant Tweak-D Inc. filed a trademark application for TRIBAL CHOCOLATE in connection with hair care products. The examiner objected to registration of the...
Read more

DABUS, short for Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience, has suffered another court loss in it’s creator’s quest for it to be...
Read more

The salad chain Sweetgreen has decided to rename its new chipotle chicken menu item, just two days after fast food giant Chipotle Mexican Grill,...
Read more

The US Copyright Office (“USCO”) has issued a policy statement for guidance on the copyright registrability of works containing AI-generated content. The policy statement...
Read more

On 1 March 2023 the Copyright Board of Canada published and brought into effect the final version of their Rules of Practice and Procedure...
Read more

The US Copyright Office has limited a copyright registration for a comic book titled “Zarya of the Dawn” (the “Work”) authored by Kristina Kashtanova...
Read more

The World Intellectual Property Office (the “WIPO”) has opened its 2023 Global Awards program. The program seeks small and medium sized enterprises that use...
Read more

A recently published study suggests that brain scans could be used as evidence in trademark infringement cases. In Canada, a finding of trademark infringement...
Read more