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On April 21, 2026, China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) published its Annual Report on Legal Application Issues in Intellectual Property Cases of Courts Nationwide (2025) (全国法院知识产权案件法律适用问题年度报告(2025)摘要), identifying 45 legal application issues drawn from intellectual property cases concluded by courts at all levels during 2025.
Source: China’s SPC Published its Report on Legal Application Issues in Intellectual Property
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The General Court of the European Union, the court of first instance of the CJEU, has backed this Wednesday the publishing house responsible for the Astérix and Obélix comics against the registration as a trademark of the denomination ‘Obelix’ in favor of a Polish company dedicated to the manufacture of firearms, ammunition, and explosives…Consequently, the resolution indicates that this assessment cannot be limited, as the EUIPO mistakenly did, to stating that there are too significant differences between the affected products and services and that the respective audiences do not coincide.
Source: The EU blocks Obelix’s registration as a weapons trademark | Demócrata
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Four songwriters based in Los Angeles have filed a copyright lawsuit against HYBE, NewJeans, ADOR, and more, alleging that the K-pop group’s 2024 single How Sweet was built in part from a demo that the plaintiffs submitted and were told wasn’t selected.
Sourse: Songwriters sue HYBE, NewJeans, claiming elements of ‘How Sweet’ were taken from their rejected demo


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