The Court of Appeals issued an opinion affirming the district court’s summary judgment in favor of Defendant-Appellee, Ford Global Technologies, LLC (“Ford”), and against Plaintiff-Appellant, Automotive Body Parts Association (“Automotive”). [read post]

You can separately subscribe to the IP Think Tank Global Week in Review at the Subscribe page: [duncanbucknell.com]   Highlights this week included: ECJ gives Copad ruling on exhaustion and luxury goods; interpretation of Article 8(2) leads to new questions: Copad SA v Christian Dior couture SA, Vincent Gladel, as liquidator of Société industrielle lingerie (Class 46) (IPKat) China’s biggest ever patent dispute comes to a multi-million… [read post]

Ford Global Technologies, LLC, No. 2018-1613 (Fed. [read post]