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Taylor Wessing and RPC confirm new launch plans for Asia

Taylor Wessing and Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC) have confirmed plans to open new bases in Asia, as UK law firm interest in the region shows no sign of abating.
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The law of luxury goods

With few industries performing better than the €185bn (£148bn) luxury goods sector, a rising number of lawyers and law graduates are electing it as their business development focus.
5 minute read

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Bakers seals fixed-fee deal with software giant SAP to manage worldwide trademark portfolio

Baker & McKenzie has agreed a new fixed-fee deal with German software company SAP to manage its entire trademark portfolio globally.
2 minute read

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Cleary, Squire Sanders and McDermott lead charge of big law firms to Seoul

The past few years have seen China hogging the headlines and boardroom discussions, but as companies adopt a pan-Asian strategy amid slowing Western economies, South Korea has rapidly become the new focus for firms.
3 minute read

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Apple v Samsung: how do juries calculate damages in complex patent cases?

"How did the jury calculate damages? Well, armed with these jury instructions, they did what most people seem to do when faced with the dark art of calculating patent infringement damages: they stuck their nine figures in the air, filled out a form, and came up with a number..."
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MoFo and WilmerHale secure $1bn win for Apple in Samsung patent dispute

Morrison & Foerster (MoFo) and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr have helped Apple to a landmark $1bn (£634m) court victory in its high-profile patent dispute with Samsung, reports The Recorder. The jury in the case - which centred around the claim that Samsung ripped off the unique design features of Apple's iPad and iPhone - found that Samsung infringed most of the patents Apple sued over, and its trade dress on the iPhone and iPad, and did so willfully.
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Travers and Freshfields head up launch of new Tesco-backed coffee venture

Travers Smith and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have advised on the establishment of a new Tesco-backed coffee venture called Harris & Hoole. Tesco has reportedly taken a 49% share in the new business, with independent coffee outlet Taylor St Baristas holding the majority stake.
2 minute read

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Lawyers in Apple-Samsung patent dispute deliver closing arguments

Lawyers in the patent dispute betwen Apple and Samsung have delivered their closing arguments in the high-profile trial, with Apple pursuing $2.75bn (£1.7bn) in damages, reports The Recorder. The dispute centres around the claim that Samsung ripped off the unique design features of Apple's iPad and iPhone.
2 minute read

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The brand value of a football club - would Rangers benefit from a move to England?

The news that Rangers FC, a famous old Scottish football club, would be liquidated caused a shock in the world of sport. Here was a sporting institution, founded in 1872 and league champions a record 54 times, being dissolved forever… at least in the legal sense. The goodwill and the brand, if not the club, will undoubtedly live on. However, this blog will look at whether rebranding an English football club as Rangers FC and playing in the English league would bring greater fortune for the brand, or kill it altogether.
5 minute read

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Freshfields and Apple defeated in Samsung design infringement dispute

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised Apple on its unsuccessful design infringement claim against Samsung, marking the second recent dispute loss for the firm after Taiwan's HTC saw off a patent challenge from the US tech giant last week. The Apple-Samsung dispute saw Judge Birss QC rule that while the registered design of Samsung's Galaxy tablet model had superficial similarities to that of the Apple iPad, few would confuse the two as the Galaxy tablet was not "as cool".
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