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IP weekly highlights—29 June 2023

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Published on: 29 June 2023

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Table of contents

Copyright & associated rights
Managing copyright risk in the music industry
How to respond to a claim when an employee downloads illegal software
Trade marks/passing off
Ambush marketing—Norwich Pharmacal applications (Puma v TfL)
EUIPO calls for e-commerce marketplaces to share IP knowledge
Patents
Employee inventions and compensation (Parsons v Convatec)
Confidential information
Anonymity, privilege and the law of unincorporated associations (Taylor v Evans)

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Article summary

Welcome to this week’s edition of the IP weekly highlights: a hand-picked summary of news analysis, updates and new content from the world of IP. These highlights focus on the key rights of copyright and associated rights, database rights, trade marks and passing off, designs, and patents as well as covering issues relating to confidential information, know-how R&D and IP disputes all mainly from a UK and European perspective.

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