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We examine the companies protecting trademarks en masse in Australia, China, India, Japan and South Korea – revealing both the largest trademark portfolio owners and the most active filers of the past year.

29 August 2024

Featured in Community insights

In a major new project, WTR partners with sister title IAM to investigate how trademark and patent professionals differ in their sentiment towards the IP industry.

22 August 2024

In this guest analysis, Rouse trademark attorney Echo Zhao discusses ways in which applicants can get their marks registered the first time around, or else overcome refusals on relative grounds. 

21 August 2024

WTR sits down with the first deputy director of the Ukrainian IP Office to discuss the importance of protecting national symbols.

13 August 2024

Today, the highly anticipated EU AI Act officially enters into force, bringing two IP provisions that technology companies need to be prepared for.  

01 August 2024

We examine the current legislation, regulation and case law governing the production and dissemination of deepfakes and AI-generated likenesses in major jurisdictions around the world.

25 July 2024

With Elon Musk’s X Corp facing litigation in the United States, a registration refusal at the EUIPO and a loss of $3.2 billion in Twitter/X brand value, experts reflect on the company’s current brand strategy – and the challenges of promoting and protecting a single letter mark like X.

24 July 2024

Data analysis reveals that individual esports games and teams have different approaches to trademark protection, with particular standout filers.

15 July 2024

WTR data analysis reveals the law firms filing trademarks for the world’s most valuable football team brands.

04 July 2024

Exclusive WTR research reveals the national IP offices with the most (and least) accessible websites for users, with WIPO leading the way.

28 June 2024

Trademark filings fell across five of six major registers in 2023, a new report by Clarivate reveals, but the results are more positive than they seem. 

30 May 2024

Featured in IP office Innovation

WTR reveals the world’s most advanced IP offices for digital and non-core activities in the sixth edition of our exclusive ranking.

16 May 2024

Promoting work-life balance, ensuring attorneys develop effective advocacy skills, and continuing work on address for service and rights of representation are all key priorities for the new Chartered Institute of Trademark Attorneys president, Kelly Saliger. 

09 May 2024

The EUIPO's João Negrão, EU General Court and Board of Appeal judges, and in-house experts from Nestlé and Assa Abloy share their thoughts on the challenges that lie ahead for European trademark, copyright and design law, at the EUIPO's fifth IP Case Law Conference.

04 May 2024

Partners at gold-ranked law firms in India offer advice for a successful trademark litigation strategy. 

02 May 2024

In this week’s opinion column, Megan Bannigan, Christopher Ford, Kate Saba and Hannah Beattie at Debevoise & Plimpton argue that the current provisions of the US SHOP SAFE Act, while well-intentioned, go too far in shifting liability onto e-commerce sites for online counterfeiting.

20 April 2024

We reveal the law firms filing the most trademarks on behalf of the likes of Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook.

11 April 2024

WTR delves into the trademark portfolios of offices around the world to uncover those most active in protecting their own intellectual property. 

08 April 2024

Exclusive insights from WTR’s latest online brand protection survey reveal the unprecedented challenges rights holders face in today’s digital environment. 

01 April 2024

Ericsson senior IP rights and open-source researcher Eleftheria Stefanaki examines the terms and conditions of three of the most common AI tools on the market.

25 March 2024