Illinois district trademark cases blow up
The District Court for the Northern District of Illinois witnessed an explosion in trademark cases last year, probably because of the rise in
counterfeiting during the COVID pandemic, Managing IP revealed this week.
While cases fell in almost every other trademark
litigation hotspot in the US, including in the Central District of California and
the Southern District of New York, the Illinois court received 41% more cases
in 2020 than in 2019 – rising from 458 to 650.
Frank Angileri, president at Brooks Kushman in Michigan,
says he suspects the rise is due to the court being seen as more open to anonymising
The US International Trade Commission has handed a win to South-Korean electric vehicle battery maker LG Chem after it upheld allegations that its rival SK Innovation had misappropriated trade secrets worth $1 billion.
The panel that evaluates international trade disputes in the United States has squashed a complaint about Canadian blueberries.
Recent spikes in blueberry imports from countries including Canada, Mexico, Peru and Chile pose no threat to American producers, the U.S. International Trade Commission declared Thursday.
The commission voted unanimously to end its investigation, which was requested last September by Robert Lighthizer, who was then-president Donald Trump s trade ambassador at the time.
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Email As a result of (Thursday s) vote, the investigation will end, and the commission will not recommend a remedy to the president, they said in a statement.
by Steven Mufson (Washington Post) … (T)he question is not, ‘Can we sell to the wealthy?’ It is, ‘Can we get the everyday household in mainstream America to buy an EV?’ and we’re still a long way away from that.”
Meanwhile, he (David R. Keith, a Chevy Bolt owner and assistant professor at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) added, the cars on the road today will be on the road for the next 15 to 20 years. “There is so much inertia baked into those 250 million light-duty vehicles,” he said.
The biggest companies, like GM, have not gotten off to a strong start.