Organisation: NEC

“We must foster a culture of inclusivity”: IP leaders call for faster industry change

More needs to be done to foster a fair and inclusive working environment, argue high-profile women IP leaders, in this week’s opinion column.

09 March 2024

How do we get more women into IP?

We speak to 26 women leaders about how they made their first foray into IP, and how the industry has changed since.

08 March 2024

International Women’s Day: overcoming the obstacles to success

Twenty-six influential women in IP share the hardships they had to overcome to rise to leadership positions in a male-dominated industry.

08 March 2024

IP’s most influential women offer career tips for aspiring leaders

From the director of the USPTO to the CEO of IPwe, 26 influential women offer their advice to younger professionals aspiring for greatness.

07 March 2024

Good news for Huawei as General Court confirms that “computer software” and related goods/services are similar to “computers”

The decision confirms the approach taken by the EUIPO in a number of recent cases, where “software” and other technological apparatus have been found to be similar to “computers”.

21 March 2022

General Court navigates the basics of trademark law

In <i>NEC Display Solutions Europe GmbH v OHIM</i>, the General Court has upheld a decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM in which the latter had found that there was a likelihood of confusion between NEC Display Solutions Europe GmbH’s mark NAVIKEY and Nokia Corp’s earlier mark NAVI. The court provided a reminder of the basic function of trademarks: that they exist as a guarantee of trade origin.

09 November 2011