Organisation: Clara

Google policy update will create more work for trademark owners, practitioners warn

Under Google's new trademark policy, brand owners will no longer be able to file industry-wide infringement complaints. Practitioners weigh in.

30 June 2023

“One of the few effective mechanisms”: academic paper was wrong to target multi-seller litigation actions

This week’s opinion gives the other side of the argument in response to claims that US litigation actions targeting multiple online counterfeit sellers exploit legal loopholes to the detriment of the system.

01 April 2023

Multiple-defendant litigation actions against online sellers heavily criticised in new paper

A new research paper has hit out at litigation actions that target multiple ‘schedule A defendants’, arguing that it is being widely misused.

21 March 2023

SHOP SAFE Act advances: AAFA calls for swift passage as critics slam legislation

The Stopping Harmful Offers on Platforms by Screening Against Fakes in E-commerce (SHOP SAFE) Act has been approved by the House Judiciary Committee.

30 September 2021

Diversity and inclusion: moving the needle together

Featured in Special Report 2021 Q2: Inside in-house operations - how to build world-class trademark functions and portfolios

Facebook's Mike Yaghmai and Dennis Wilson of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, explain why and how the two organisations have partnered up to facilitate faster change towards diversity and inclusion in the legal sector.

07 July 2021

Amazon expands Transparency scheme as spotlight falls on anti-counterfeiting efforts

Amazon announces expansion of Transparency, its product serialisation service that “prevents counterfeits at scale”. It comes after a US court decision which considered Amazon as the “seller” in a third-party marketplace transaction.

10 July 2019