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Intellectual Property Rights: study indicates that roughly 35% of jobs in the EU rely on IPR-intensive industries

The re-posting of this analysis is part of a cross-posting collaboration with MediaLaws: Law and Policy of the Media in a Comparative Perspective.

Semantics? LG Electronic’s Losing Battle Over DIRECT DRIVE®

Courtney Doagoo is a doctoral student at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. On November 22, 2011, the European Community Court of Justice rejected an Appeal made by LG Electronics for the trade mark registration of the word sign DIRECT DRIVE for Class 7 and 11 wares (namely electric washing machines for household purposes, […]