The road ahead: Sustainable vehicles today and in the future
Convergence is an unstoppable natural consequence of innovation. One industry right in the middle of a convergence storm and multiple vectors of disruption is the automotive sector.
Electric vehicles and sustainable transportation have increasingly become a hot topic as sustainability becomes a strategic imperative for companies.
IP sits at the heart of this convergence. Clarivate has spent the last few months enriching the way we analyse our content sources to look at harnessing the power of unified IP, augmented with enriched academic research insights, to unlock valuable insights and hidden opportunities in the burgeoning global electric vehicles sector
This webinar covers:
- EVs’ innovation activity on an upward trajectory since the turn of the new millennium
- Governments’ role and the wide-ranging policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
- Where the ideas and intellectual property assets are being produced, geographically
- How well-protected brands in the automotive industry tend to be on the leading edge of security, brand protection and digital commercialization
- The potential of EV related technologies and the opportunities that lie ahead
- Gaps in technology development, and the problems still to be solved
Protect Your Domains to Protect Your Brand
Abuse of the domain name system (DNS) is increasing at an alarming rate. Phishing attacks, for example, doubled in volume during 2020 alone. The pharmaceutical, fashion, technology, retail, and financial services industries are among the hardest hit, with threats on the rise across the board.
Trends in domain name arbitration activity provide key insights into the problem, including how brand owners can help prevent abuse online. A recent study analyzing domain arbitration data over the past decade sheds light on the specific challenges brands face and the proactive brand protection strategies that can be used to shield against opportunistic actors.
在这次研讨会,BET9九州体育的专家讨论:
- Developing a comprehensive brand protection strategy
- Assessing infringement threats by risk level and potential level of harm to a brand
- The importance of reviewing domain abuse through both a brand and security lens
- Which top-level domains (TLDs) are most often registered and used in bad faith
Beyond searching for case law
The globalization of markets is a well established fact that defines the world people and businesses operate in. Corporations currently sell and license their IP in multiple jurisdictions worldwide. Alongside business initiatives, litigation and legal counseling also follows – every year, the number of IP portfolios involved in multi-jurisdictional litigation rises.
Currently, in order to be competitive, informed, and to provide the best possible service to their customers, law firms need a global view of litigation. With Darts-ip’s IP cases database, the most comprehensive IP litigation database covering 3600+ courts in 140+ countries, IP practitioners can now broaden their horizons to include global litigation data in their practice. From portfolio analysis to M&As, preparing litigation campaigns, or making a comprehensive legal risk assessment, practitioners benefit from a truly global overview of litigation and administrative challenges, ranging from Chile to South Korea, from the US to Thailand.
Law firms and counsels must now have a wider view of litigation to understand who is litigating what and where, so they can most effectively and more confidently deliver their specialized services, be it in terms of technical field or in terms of geographical coverage.
This webinar will be beneficial for law firms and IP counsels.
In this webinar, we will illustrate how you can leverage Darts-ip data for risk assessment and analysis with a key focus on the following topics:
- Importance of a global case database for an IP professional
- Leveraging IP case data and insights for risk assessment
- Supporting business development for law firms
- Case studies
Goods and services comparison
Master the Goods and Services Comparison Search Tool
In this training session, you will learn how you can use Darts-ip when considering the products or services to include in your TM application or when preparing an opposition, invalidity or infringement action.
Our goods & services comparison search tool, as well as the trademark statistics tool, are very useful to find cases where the similarity of specific goods & services is discussed.
The examples covered in this webinar are:
- SComparison between goods
- Assessment of goods and services to include in your trademark application
- Comparison of goods from specific Nice classes
- Comparison a good and a service in the same field
The Future of Design IP in China, Europe and the U.S.
According to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), 1.04 million industrial design applications were filed worldwide in 2019, the last year for which data exists. This represents a 1.7% increase in the number of design filings worldwide over 2018.
All geographical regions experienced growth in the number of design applications between 2009 and 2019, with North America (+6.7%) and Asia (+6.1%) seeing the largest average increases, followed by Oceania (+3%) and Europe (+1.6%).
Usually where there is an increase in the number of new applications, litigation follows. However, after studying the landscaping of design lawsuits over the past decade, divergent trends were identified. First, design litigation has been skyrocketing in China throughout various industries. Second, design litigation has been constantly declining in both Europe and the United States, despite the fact that both centers for fashion and automotive design.
The dichotomy of design IP in China compared to Europe or the United States is striking. The litigation landscape data raises the question: what is the future of design in mature IP jurisdictions, such as Europe and the US, but also in new and emerging markets, such as China? Are design asset owners taking full benefit of their IP and how should their strategies improve?
On March 4, 2021, Gene Quinn, CEO of IPWatchdog, Inc, discussed this shift in design IP rights and litigation. Gene was joined by Niccolò Ferretti from Nunziante Magrone, Tracy-Gene Durkin from Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein, & Fox, and David Marques from Clarivate.
Listen now to learn more.
Copyright decisions in Germany
This training is dedicated to the most interesting decisions in copyright law in Germany and shows how you can find answers in Darts-ip on:
- The validity of a particular work (such as a photograph) posted on a public website
- Co-authorship of films
- The duplication problem of a software application
- The liability of Internet providers for content that is placed online by users
- Freedom of expression as a restriction on copyright
- The interaction between copyright and fundamental rights (personal / image rights)
- If you have any questions, please contact support@darts-ip.com.
Prepare your copyright cases with Darts-ip
How to leverage the copyright case law to defend your clients’ rights
Despite the Digital Single Market Directive, copyright law remains not so harmonized and that is why case law comparison is key in this matter.
During this session, we introduced the participants to the most common questions in copyright case law and how you can find answers in Darts-ip, for example on:
- The originality of a photography, published on a public website
- Joint authorship when it relates to a song
- The reproduction rights of a software application
- The reproduction and attribution right on a sculpture, the Bust of ‘la Marianne’
- The exhaustion of distribution rights in European landmark cases
- Parody as an exception to copyright in Europe and its equivalent in the United States
Prepare your copyright files with Darts-ip
Comment préparez vos dossier en droits d’auteur afin de défendre les droits de vos clients
Malgré la Directive sur le droit d’auteur dans le marché unique numérique, cette matière reste peu harmonisée. Voilà, la raison pour laquelle l’analyse de la jurisprudence est tant primordiale.
Cette session de formation, centrée sur notre contenu français, a pour but de vous apprendre les stratégies de recherche dans le module droit d’auteur au regard des questions jurisprudentielles les plus pointus. Nous abordons, par exemple, la question de:
- L’originalité d’une photographie
- La présomption de titularité pour les oeuvres d’art appliqué (ex. les vêtements)
- La contrefaçon des droits économiques et moraux (affaire du Buste de ‘la Marianne’)
- Le droit de suite
- L’exception de la parodie
- La position de la cour de cassation concernant des questions de droit d’auteur
- Les droits voisins des artistes interprètes (affaire Coluche)
Novedades para Latinoamérica
La disponibilidad de contenidos y el nivel de análisis de las decisiones de Latinoamérica en Darts-ip se encuentra en un nivel óptimo lo que sumado a nuestros últimos desarrollos tecnológicos permite a nuestros usuarios planificar estrategias legales que antes parecían imposibles en la región.
En este webinar de Darts-Ip usted aprenderá a:
- Utilizar estratégicamente nuestra herramienta de visualización de data para revisar la agresividad de un titular en Latinoamérica.
- Determinar fácilmente conflictos de marcas figurativas usando nuestra herramienta de reconocimiento de imagen.
- Anticipar una eventual denegación provisional de marcas figurativas por parte de Instituto Nacional de Propiedad Intelectual (Chile).
- Revisar casos de infracción en donde la Superintendencia de Industria y Comercia (Colombia) haya determinado que existe riesgo de confusión.
- Monitorear a sus clientes y/o competidores en los casos que tengan pendientes de resolver en la región.
Prepare your designs & models invalidity cases with Darts-ip
This training session aims at showing how to leverage the case law information to prepare invalidity actions for designs and models. It’s based on real life cases where the Darts-ip tools were used in various contexts of design invalidity.
- Profile your counterpart in an invalidity context
- Monitor a design
- Defend your design on absolute grounds issues: find cases discussing the features solely dictated by their technical function for building materials in the context of invalidity actions.
- Defend your design on relative grounds issues: analyse cases where although the color and dimension of the designs were considered different, the similar shape prevailed in the overall similarity assessment of the designs.
- Assess how the French courts consider the lack of novelty for jewellery designs in the context of an invalidity counterclaim.
- Check how the European instances interpret a specific legal topic: the criteria of degree of freedom of the designer for a specific product.
- Identify the risk for your design to be invalidated by another prior right such as a trademark and how do the courts tackle this issue.
Prepare your infringement cases with Darts-ip
This training session explores the different contexts where you can leverage Darts-ip to prepare your infringement cases regarding designs and models. We covered the following topics:
- Design vs. Design
- Design vs. other types of IP rights
- Means of defence
- Statistics on sanctions
Successfully prepare your Design & Model cases with Darts-ip
This training session aims at showing the basic search strategies to perform in Darts-ip when preparing a design and model case.
In order to illustrate all the different search tools, we’ll go through the following set of real-life examples:
- Search by party,
- Search by product and analyze the case law involving the same design as yours, for example, designs of biscuits
- Search by design number
- Search by design name and find case law regarding a famous design such as the Tripp Trapp chair
- Search by legal topic and action type, visualize the trends and assess your chances of success whenever, for example, the designer has launched an infringement action and in which the validity of the plaintiff’s design is challenged as a counterclaim, based on the technical aspect
Visualize trends in the patent case law with Darts-ip
Darts-ip has developed new tools to easily visualize trends based on administrative and judicial patent cases to help you interpret your results.
We are happy to organize an online training to show you how to leverage those tools to save your time and generate an interactive graphical overview for:
- Cases involving a specific party
- Cases regarding a patent
- Cases regarding a specific industry/IPC class
- Cases where the examiner/judge gave the definition of a specific term
Rapidly view and analyse large amounts of case law data at a glance through a clear graphical overview.
Most frequent types of searches in the patent module of Darts-ip
This training session focused on the most frequent type of searches performed by Darts-ip users during the past year in the patent domain. As these types of searches appear to be valuable for patent practitioners, we wanted to prepare a special training to highlight how to best perform them:
- Search by patent portfolio
- Search by party (within a specific period of time and in certain countries)
- Search by point of law
- Search by type of first action (within a specific technical field)
Pharma: Global patent case law
This webinar focuses on how to gain global insight and find relevant case law worldwide for the pharmaceutical industry.
This training will help you to:
- Find case law on a specific active ingredient in different countries
- Search for infringement & validity challenges involving specific patents
- Identify all actions launched against a generic producer to stop them from getting a notice of compliance in Canada
- Look for Canadian cases discussing the prohibition by the Minister of Health from issuing a Notice of Compliance for a generic producer
- Find Australian landmark decisions on certificate of extension (equivalent to the European SPC or US certificate of extension) in the frame of a Swiss Type claim
- Easily gather key information in the pharmaceutical sector worldwide
China for EP practitioners
The aim of this training is to show how Darts-ip can guide you through the Chinese jurisdictions and help you extract invaluable information from the Chinese section of the Darts-ip case law database.
This session will help you to :
- Obtain a comprehensive view of a patent’s granting proceeding before the Chinese Patent Office
- And develop judicial strategies before the Chinese jurisdictions (competitor monitoring, forum shopping, analysing case-law…)
Prosection with Darts-ip for EP practitioners
The aim of this training is to show you how you can integrate Darts-ip into your daily workflow to prepare your prosecution cases. Notably, you will see how:
- Darts-ip can help you find crucial additional information when preparing an appeal before the EPO or performing a freedom to operate analysis
- How to use Darts-ip to identify your strongest argument, then perfect it by understanding how a particular board of appeal has viewed this legal issue in the past.
India for EP practitioners
The aim of this training is to show you how you can use our case law database in the Indian jurisdiction. This session will show you how to:
1. during the preparation of prosecution proceedings:
- obtain a comprehensive view of a patent’s granting proceeding.
- study the interpretation of a specific point of law by the Indian Patent Office.
2. develop judicial strategies in order to:
- monitor recent infringement actions before the Indian jurisdictions,including in a particular field.
- do forum shopping in India when:
- identifying the best jurisdiction to obtain a preliminary injunction to stop infringement,
- analysing the grounds on which the preliminary injunction was granted/refused by the selected jurisdiction.
Prepare your patent invalidity actions with Darts-ip
Use of the Darts-ip litigation database for preparing a patent challenge
Case study by Bart van den Hazel, European Patent Attorney.
As a long time user of the Darts-ip case law database, Dr. van den Hazel has developed strong search strategies to invalidate a patent application.
Through this webinar he will demonstrate the great value of a comprehensive IP litigation database for preparing a patent challenge. We’ll focus on four Darts-ip database tools that are useful for this task :
- Patent number search – to find cases on foreign equivalents
- Free text search – to find technically similar cases
- Points of law search – to find useful Case Law on a specific legal topic
- 要求施工 search – to find useful Case Law on the definition of a term given by a judge
要求施工 and damages search tools
This session aims to explain how the claim construction and damages tabs can be used when searching for discussions related to damages or definitions of terms/phrasing. More specifically, we will show you the following search examples:
1. 要求施工
- Search for the definition of a specific term given by a judge or an examiner in the electronics field
- Find the interpretation of the word in the context of a sentence in a markman hearing
- Search for the meaning of a term which must contain a specific word in the definition given by the judge
2. Damages
- Find cases where a judge has granted a very high amount in infringement damages to US NPEs by using a specific method of calculation
- Look for cases where there is a relevant discussion on the granting of significant additional remuneration
Prepare your patent infringement cases with Darts-ip
This session aims to explain how you can leverage Darts-ip for your patent infringement cases, in particular how you can:
- Analyse trends of jurisdictions regarding preliminary injunctions
- Profile the entities suing you for infringement
- Identify which European jurisdictions grant significant infringement damages
- Find case law discussing a specific topic linked to infringement proceedings such as cease and desist letters
- Make a comparative study on prior possession as a means of defense in an infringement action
Competition and technology monitoring
Being able to use the patent search tools is key when monitoring your competitors & technological field. The use of the search tools covered are:
- Competition monitoring
- Specific competitor
- NPE
- Technology monitoring
- IPC classes
- Batch of patents
- Pending case monitoring
US patent case law for non-US practitioners
This webinar will teach you the specifics of the US database and the key tools you need in order to find relevant US litigation information.
The real life cases covered by this webinar focus on how to:
- Search for IPR cases
- Compare case law from different courts
- Monitor US universities’ activities in a specific field
- Anticipate the arguments of an examiner/judge
- Look for the definition of a term by a US examiner/judge
Release of Darts-ip 5.4
Darts-ip has recently introduced new features to the database. This will help you to develop new search strategies and access key information more easily and in a more detailed way. Our tools will also help you to identify new commercial opportunities.
This webinar covers the 4 main business cases that illustrate how you can make the most of these new features by:
- Monitoring specific type of party
- Finding commercial opportunities
- Searching for a PT using the PT families
- Searching by molecule
The webinar will help you to find out more about the new search features such as the enhanced pharma filter, the nationality & type filter, the PT family dropdown.
Prepare EPO cases with Darts-ip
Find EPO cases using Darts-ip
The use of the patent database is key when you’re looking for EPO decisions. In just a few clicks you can access the most relevant case law. In this webinar, we will demonstrate advanced search strategies enabling you to gather specific information:
Finding relevant discussions on specific legal topics
- one legal topic discussed by a specific BoA
- multiple topics discussed in the same decision
Find strategic information in your field
- definition of a term by a judge or an examiner
- NPE’s activities before the EPO in the telecommunications field
- ongoing opposition involving a specific product
Prepare your FTO with Darts-ip
As a long time user of the Darts-ip IP Cases Database, Dr. van den Hazel has developed a winning method for conducting a Freedom to Operate analysis.
Through this webinar, he will demonstrate the great value of incorporating global IP cases and validity decisions in a Freedom-to-Operate analysis for any new product.
Visualize trends in the trademark case law with Darts-ip
Darts-ip has developed new tools to easily visualize trends based on administrative and judicial trademark cases to help you interpret your results.
This training aims at to show you how to leverage those tools to save your time and generate an interactive graphical overview of:
– cases involving a specific party
– cases regarding a mark
– the similarity between goods and services
Rapidly view and analyse large amounts of case law data at a glance through a clear graphical overview.
Successfully register your trademark with Darts-ip
This training session focuses on different searches you can perform when preparing your trademark registration. During this session, you will learn how to leverage Darts-ip to:
- Assess the distinctiveness of your trademark (and the potential risk of refusal) according to the case law
- Perform a class screening to identify which goods/services to consider in your availability search
- Check the aggressiveness of a potential opponent
- Evaluate the chances of success of an opposition by the owner of a specific trademark found in your availability search results
Prepare your opposition cases with Darts-ip
In this training session, you will learn how Darts-ip can help you build your opposition cases or prepare your counter-arguments. The examples covered during this webinar are:
- Trademark used in a different form than the one registered
- Partial use (= fair specification)
- Comparison of signs
- Dominant/weak elements
- Comparison of goods and services
- Relevant public
- Reputation
Understand the CJEU and GC case law at a glance with Darts-ip
The aim of this training is to show you how you can integrate Dixit Curia into your workflow and how it can help you to understand the CJEU (Court of Justice of the European Union) and GC (General Court) trademark case law at a glance.
Dixit Curia seeks to provide IP professionals a handy and up-to-date overview of all the relevant CJEU and GC case law on a specific legal topic of trademark law.
With this training, you’ll learn how to:
– Gain a general overview of the current position of the CJEU and GC on a specific legal topic in order to, for example to assess the likelihood of confusion between trademarks or to find model cases for your presentation/ report.
– Navigate through the 2000 judgments of the CJEU and GC and easily locate the key principles of its trademark case law.
Monitor your field with Darts-ip
This session aims at informing how to monitor, with Darts-ip, the case law activity of your competitors, clients or prospects and be alerted of new relevant decisions discussing a specific topic or comparing specific products/services.
We covered different types of monitoring in this webinar which enables you to:
- Identify the new applicants who have an issue with their trademark application in a specific country
- Trail the case law activity of your client/ competitor
- Track the latest position of courts and IP offices on a specific topic
- Monitor cases comparing a specific Nice class to other products/ services
- Set up strategic alerts to avoid missing any upcoming information
Advanced verbal comparison
Darts-ip has recently introduced new features to the database. This will help you to develop new search strategies and access key information more easily and in a more detailed way. Our tools will also help you to identify new commercial opportunities.
This webinar covers the 2 main business cases that illustrate how you can make the most of these new features:
- Search for a Danish company name
- Find commercial opportunities
Release of Darts-ip 5.4
Darts-ip has recently introduced new features to the database. This will help you to develop new search strategies and access key information more easily and in a more detailed way. Our tools will also help you to identify new commercial opportunities.
This webinar covers the 2 main business cases that illustrate how you can make the most of these new features:
- Search for a Danish company name
- Find commercial opportunities
Strategic use of the points of law
Find cases using points of law with Darts-ip
The use of POLs is key when you’re looking for a specific legal discussion. In one click you can access all decisions dealing with this specific legal topic. You can even specify the decision outcome for the point of law. Uses of points of law covered in this webinar are:
- Anticipate a legal discussion
- Distinctiveness
- Reputation of an earlier TM
- Sharpen your arguments and assess your chances of success
- TM invalid
- Genuine use
- Similarity between TMs (multiple POLs)
Find cases based on the verbal structure with Darts-ip
The use of the verbal comparison search tool is key when comparing verbal structures of trademarks. In few seconds, you can find the killer argument to support your case. The comparisons covered in this webinar are:
- 额外的元素
- Anagrams
- Different character(s)
- Character type
- Special characters