Court of First Instance rejects Lego’s appeal against OHIM’s Board of Appeals decision that Lego brick shape not registrable as a Community trade mark (Ars Technica) (Techdirt) OHIM opposition quality standards – the Office responds (IPKat) Charlie McCreevy puts forward proposal to reduce CTM fees by about 40% (Managing Intellectual Property) (Class 46) New protected geographical indications: French PGI Boeuf de Bazas for fresh meat and offal; Finnish PGI Kainuun… [read post]

The other day, I was blogging about tags, and somebody asked what are all the tags. [read post]

Below the fold are the results of the 2019-2020 Law Professor Twitter Census. [read post]

Bipartisan Senate Report Calls for Sweeping Effort to Prevent Russian Interference in 2020 Election MSN – Craig Timberg and Tony Romm (Washington Post) | Published: 10/8/2019 A bipartisan panel of U.S. senators called for sweeping action by Congress, the White House, and Silicon Valley to ensure social media sites are not used to interfere in the coming presidential election, delivering a sobering assessment about the weaknesses that Russian operatives exploited in the 2016… [read post]