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Iconic Handbags: How to Protect Fashion’s Most Beloved Icons with IP
Handbags are iconic, designed to distinguish the owner as much as the maker. They carry the most powerful names in fashion and complete the look of superstars like Beyoncé.
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‘Rocket suit’ in Olympics: NASA-backed design could help swimmers clinch gold
Swimmers who are competing for gold at the Paris Olympics this month are anticipating cutting-edge swimsuits which could help them excel at their performance.
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Fake for Real: A History of Forgery and Falsification exhibition in Sofia
The Ancient Greeks, the myth goes, used a wooden horse to deceive their enemies and breach the walls of Troy.
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WIPO launches New Youth Empowerment Strategy for enhanced youth engagement
The World Intellectual Property Organization launched its first Youth Empowerment Strategy, dubbed IP-YES!
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Nine of the most stylish kits the athletes will be wearing at the Paris Olympics 2024
From voguish volleyball outfits to sleek skatewear, this year's event – in the famously chic French capital – has been called "the most fashionable Olympics". Here are the kits that prove it.
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The Conscious Vanguard: The future of Ireland’s fashion industry
A new type of fashion industry is beginning to emerge in Ireland, one that retains its history of craft and skill while harnessing a forward-thinking, sustainable vision for the future
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EU targets the likes of Temu and Shein with cheap goods crackdown
Cheap products from China are currently exempt from EU import duties, although FT sources say this could soon change.
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China-based inventors filing most GenAI patents, WIPO data shows
China-based inventors are filing the highest number of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) patents, far outpacing inventors in the US, Republic of Korea, Japan and India that comprise the re
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New EUIPO webinar: Trade marks in films, when fiction becomes reality
Following the success of the first EUIPO edition of the Cineforum webinar: When reality enters the fiction, the second edition is now underway:
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