Specialty Group: Intellectual Property, Information Technology & Cybersecurity

INTRODUCTION On November 18, 2022, the Government of India released the long awaited fourth draft of India’s proposed privacy law, now renamed as the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill (“Bill”). The Government ...

The long-awaited day in which the European Unified Patent Court (aka UPC) will open its doors to applicants is now fast approaching. Indeed, by the 1st of April 2023 the UPC Agreement will entry into force and so the Cou ...

In China, goods and services in different classes and sub-classes* are considered dissimilar, subject to limited exceptions specified in the classification book. Brand owners often find such rigidity a hurdle in their ac ...

Shadow companies are companies with company names incorporating or confusingly similar to trademarks or brand names of others, neither with the authorization of nor being in any way connected to the trademark or brand na ...