This week’s IP Matters takes on Alibaba’s dispute with Alibabacoin, a cryptocurrency company, over use of Alibaba’s registered trademark, ‘Alibaba’ and other marks. Can Alibaba stop Alibabacoin from continuing to market ‘Alibabacoin’ on the Internet? Alibaba is into online retail business,.. Read more
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Intellectual Property
May 5, 2018
Alibaba v. Alibabacoin—When Marketing Crypto Buys You a Lawsuit in Trademark Infringement
Updates & Headlines
April 30, 2018
Infusion Lawyers Commemorates 3 World International Days in April!
This last day of April, we commemorate 3 World International Days: World Creativity and Innovation Day (April 21), World Book and Copyright Day (April 23), and World Intellectual Property Day (April 26). We also commemorate our first anniversary at Infusion Lawyers!.. Read more
Intellectual Property
IP & IT Advocacy
Updates & Headlines
April 29, 2018
The Masculinity of Intellectual Property, Femininity, and the Malnourished Baby
“Beyond the kitchen and ‘the other room’, today we celebrate Nigerian women powering change through innovation and creativity. Today, we celebrate women powering change in the kitchen of creativity, cooking the food that feed the human mind with their artistic, literary, musical, and cinematographic works, making symphonic expressions that sing of change. Today, we celebrate women powering change in ‘the other room’ of innovation, making babies that grow to become new businesses, new industries, new technologies, and new possibilities.”- Senator Iyere Ihenyen
Updates & Headlines
April 25, 2018
Ease of Doing Business—CAC removes requirement for proficiency certificate.
By a public notice dated 19 April 2018, the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) notified the public of the removal of the requirement for proficiency certificate. This means that members of the public will no longer be required to submit Proficiency.. Read more
Updates & Headlines
April 25, 2018
Illicit: The Dark Trade—A Call to Action
In celebration of World Intellectual Property Day coming up 26 April 2018, the United State Embassy (Nigeria, Abuja FCT) organized a film show on 23 April 2018, titled Illicit: The Dark Trade. The film show provided a disturbing, engaging, and enlightening insight.. Read more
Intellectual Property
April 7, 2018
Oracle v Google—Defence of fair use fails Google’s copyright-infringement act.
This week on IP Matters, it’s all about Oracle’s victory against Google at the United States Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit in March 2018. Since 2010, this copyright-infringement case has refused to go away! Both Oracle and Google hardly.. Read more
Intellectual Property
March 24, 2018
Dolby sues Adobe for copyright infringements—Will Adobe settle out of court?
In this week’s IP Matters, Dolby has sued Adobe for infringing copyrights in its Dolby technology. (Dolby is also unhappy about Adobe’s alleged breach of contract.) After unsuccessfully trying to get Adobe to cooperate, Dolby has gone to court for.. Read more
Intellectual Property
March 9, 2018
BlackBerry v Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram—Will BlackBerry win this fight over patents?
This week’s IP Matters is a patent-infringement action against Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp by former smartphone company BlackBerry. Now a licensing company for BlackBerry software and patents, can BlackBerry get the courts to stop the three social-media platforms from continuing to.. Read more
Intellectual Property
March 2, 2018
Adidas v Shoe Branding—Why Adidas’s Three-stripe Mark Means More than Stripes
This week’s IP Matters is a trademark fight over stripes in the billion-dollar footwear industry. Can Adidas’s well-known three-stripe mark strip Shoe Branding Europe off its newer two-stripe mark? One of the biggest brands in the sportswear industry is Adidas, a.. Read more
Intellectual Property
February 15, 2018
Alphabet v Uber—Uber will pay $245 million to settle trade-secret infringement claim.
This week’s IP Matters is all about trade secrets over self-driving car technology in a very competitive and lucrative industry. It’s between Alphabet subsidiary Waymo and Uber. Alphabet subsidiary Waymo wanted $2.6 billion in damages from Uber for allegedly stealing a single trade.. Read more