Kangxin Partners PC | China | 29 Feb 2024
惩罚性赔偿适用于故意侵权且情节严重的侵害知识产权案件。因此要适用惩罚性赔偿,需要既满足故意侵权,也满足情节严重。而对这两个要件的把控是属于法院自由裁量范畴的…
Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP | USA | 20 Sep 2023
In a drastic legislative change, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed HB-219 into law to amend the Wrongful Death Act and allow for the recovery of…
Littler LLP | Canada | 1 May 2023
A long-term employee was awarded wrongful dismissal, aggravated, and punitive damages where the employer was found to have intentionally manufactured…
Lee Tsai & Partners | China | 29 Jun 2022
2022年4月21日,最高人民法院發佈2021年中國法院10大智慧財產權案件和50件典型智慧財產權案例。其中依據民事、行政和刑事三個方面對50件典型案例進行了分類,而十大智慧財產權案件則各具特色。…
Lee Tsai & Partners | China | 29 Jun 2022
On April 21, 2022, the Supreme People’s Court released the top 10 intellectual property rights (IPR) cases and 50 typical IPR cases in Chinese courts…
Berggren Oy | Finland, United Kingdom, USA | 20 Jun 2022
The weeks-long civil trial between Hollywood actor Johnny Depp and actress Amber Heard recently concluded, resulting in an American jury reaching a…
CCPIT Patent & Trademark Law Office | China | 4 Jan 2022
Highlights of the amendments China's Patent Law has just undergone the fourth revision in 2020 to improve the patent protection system and improve…
Beijing Sanyou Intellectual Property Agency Ltd | China | 13 Dec 2021
The first Paragraph of Article 63 of China’s Trademark Law specifies that, “where the exclusive right to use a trademark is maliciously infringed and…
Lexology PRO | Australia, European Union, United Kingdom, etc. | 29 Jul 2021
Plaintiff law firm Hausfeld is spearheading a proposed class action against Google that seeks almost £1 billion on behalf of 19.5 million UK consumers that allegedly overpaid for in-app content as a result of the company’s application store restrictions.
Lexology PRO | European Union, France | 22 Jul 2021
Orange and its rival SFR have settled a follow-on damages dispute in France after the country’s antitrust authority fined the former €350 million in 2015 for discriminatory practices in the mobile and fixed-line telecommunications markets.