Everything we covered on WTR over the past seven days, and all you need to know from the world of trademarks to set yourself up for the start of another busy week.
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Monday 27 January
US President Donald Trump’s return-to-office executive order sparks a wave of concern among USPTO staff.
We examine recent case studies on how to enforce trademarks with a reputation in the European Union.
US district court trademark complaint filings have fallen for the first time in four years, Docket Navigator data shows.
Tuesday 28 January
Chinese filings in the European Union have grown around 16%, but businesses in other major jurisdictions have shown signs of scaling back, new EUIPO data reveals.
We outline recent cases where fashion and luxury brands’ tactics to protect their trademarks failed to hit the mark in court.
Wednesday 29 January
USPTO staff are rocked by a resignation offer as trademark attorneys warn that morale, productivity and trademark pendency will suffer if the examining corps are forced to ditch teleworking.
This week’s IP office updates consider Denmark’s new case handling system, Yemen’s new goods and services limit and Hong Kong’s new IP forms, among other things.
Thursday 30 January
In an exclusive interview, Kara Fielder, senior trademark and operations manager at Worldpay, discusses the power of networking to redefine the trademark administrator role.
Friday 31 January
USPTO management faces criticism for its “radio silence” in response to the Office of Personnel Management’s deferred resignation offer to USPTO staff, as a national union urges them to reject it.
A long-awaited US Copyright Office report declares that AI prompts alone are not authorship.
A major EU enforcement operation reports a lower value of fake pharmaceutical seizures than predecessor editions, despite growing counterfeiting issues in the industry.
Nintendo suffers a blow in Costa Rica, OpenAI and DeepSeek clash, and a US court issues a BAD SPANIELS update in this week’s news digest.
Saturday 1 February
Panellists at an EUIPO event argue that GI products can contribute to sustainable development goals and that producers can safely innovate without losing their ‘special’ status, in this week’s Opinion Column.
