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April 01 2021
The photo of Prince by Lynn Goldsmith (L) and the Andy Warhol depiction (R), as shown in court documents
Unilever is top EUTM
filer in Netherlands
Consumer goods company Unilever – which until November 2020
had its headquarters in both the Netherlands and the UK – topped the list of
most active EUTM filers in the Netherlands in 2020 by filing 68 applications.
Unilever was also the second biggest Netherlands-based filer
from 2015 to 2020 with 392 applications.
Michel Rorai, Unilever’s lead IP counsel, says the company’s
trademark activity in 2020 mainly centred on updated brand logos, extra classes
to protect extensions of existing brands, and some sub-brand launches.
It s being called the worst IPO in London s history.
Shares in the food delivery app Deliveroo closed 26% down on the day of its public listings debut, wiping £2 billion (US$2.75 billion) from its £7.6 billion ($10.5 billion) opening market capitalization.
Much of the blame was being laid at the feet of a disastrous roadshow, where its Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan advisors refused to name the three anchor investors who were based outside the UK.
British fund managers also were spooked by a dual-class share structure which gave its CEO Will Shu outsized voting rights 20 times those of other investors.
But the structure also meant Deliveroo didn t debut into the FTSE 100 index, meaning passive tracker funds buying shares in the index would pass over Deliveroo.
Under normal circumstances, any company making a bombastic declaration that it will partially respect a court decision would be met with a chorus of derision. Yet, Uber's announcement on 16 March (.)
April 1st, 2021, by Alex Kirby
Heathrow airport does not need a third runway, its critics insist.
Image:
By Asterion at English Wikipedia, via Wikipedia Commons
The UK faces growing pressure not to expand Heathrow airport but to respect the 1.5°C limit agreed on global heating.
LONDON, 1 April, 2021 − In a significant challenge to the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court, several leading climate scientists have said a recent ruling it made on the expansion of London’s main airport, Heathrow, will cause serious damage to the global environment, urging it to rule that the government must respect the 1.5°C limit internationally agreed to rein in global heating.