Managing IP

The 50 most influential people in IP 2024 https://lnkd.in/errj6W3W Managing IP presents the 50 individuals who exerted the most influence on IP during 2024 – with a serial trademark asserter and several IP office heads among those who made the cut #managingip #50mostinfluentialpeopleinIP #trademarks #patents

50 most influential people in IP 2024: Jessica Polfjärd https://lnkd.in/etCPwx6v Jessica Polfjärd is a member of the European People's Party and rapporteur for the Committee on Environment, Public Health, and Food Safety. The committee, under Polfjärd's guidance, has suggested a hugely significant ban on obtaining patents on plants produced by new genomic techniques (NGT). #50mostinfluentialpeopleinIP #managingIP #epp #ngt

50 most influential people in IP 2024: Kathi Vidal https://lnkd.in/e4g5k7EX Under Vidal’s leadership, the USPTO has been active addressing the IP implications of artificial intelligence (AI) – putting forth guidance on subject matter eligibility and clarifying how the office will analyse inventorship issues related to AI. #50mostinfluentialpeopleinIP #managingIP #ai #uspto

Counsel mull remand likelihood after Dewberry v Dewberry arguments https://lnkd.in/eMhjNN3M Thomas Hungar, partner at Gibson Dunn in Washington DC, argued for petitioner Dewberry Group. Elbert Lin, partner at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP Kurth, argued for Dewberry Engineers. Counsel discuss how likely SCOTUS is to remand closely watched trademark case, which centres on the principle of corporate separateness Insight from John Strand (Wolf Greenfield) and Brian Horne (Knobbe Martens) #scotus #dewberry #trademark #separateness

50 most influential people in IP 2024: Alexander Ramsay and Antonio Campinos https://lnkd.in/exV8fvUX Ramsay is UPC registrar while Campinos is president of the European Patent Office #50mostinfluentialpeopleinIP #managingIP #upc #epi

50 most influential people in IP 2024: Daren Tang https://lnkd.in/ezbwmv8z This year marked a significant milestone for World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO. In May, a historic treaty on intellectual property, genetic resources, and associated traditional knowledge was agreed. #50mostinfluentialpeopleinIP #managingIP #wipo #ipstrategy

50 most influential people in IP 2024: João Negrão https://lnkd.in/e55D3ARf João Negrão, who took over the reins as EUIPO - European Union Intellectual Property Office executive director in July last year, has ensured his first full year in charge was not quiet. In February, Negrão referred several questions to the office’s Grand Board of Appeal (GBoA) in an attempt to gain clarity surrounding the conversion of EU trademarks (EUTMs) into national marks. #50mostinfluentialpeopleinIP #managingIP #euipo #joaonegrao #gboa

50 most influential people in IP 2024: Moe Moe Thwe https://lnkd.in/eJusME-V Thwe is the deputy director and head of the Intellectual Property Department of Myanmar #50mostinfluentialpeipleinIP #managingIP #myanmar

50 most influential people in IP 2024: Michael Moore https://lnkd.in/eAuhan-3 Moore is head of IP at Mattel, Inc. in California. Through overseeing the IP work for partnerships, Moore has helped his company reinforce Barbie’s cultural relevance and demonstrated how brand licensing can maximise the value of IP. #50mostinfluentialpeopleinIP #managingip #mattel #barbie

50 most influential people in IP 2024: Matthew McKay https://lnkd.in/eqq_BbX6 Matthew McKay made this list last year after the full Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit agreed to hear LKQ Corporation v GM Global. He makes the list again this year after the appellate court ruled in favour of his company and agreed that the approach courts had been using to determine design patent obviousness was too rigid. #50mostinfluentialpeopleinIP #managingIP #lkq #ipstrategy