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World Intellectual Property Day 2024 Youth Video Competition
With IP, we can dream of a better future, turn our ideas into reality and create a world where everyone thrives.
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L’Élixir De L’Amour: How A 19th Century French Widow Turned Her Trademark Champagne Into A Lifestyle Beverage
Valentine’s Day is upon us yet again. Chances are, you and your sweetheart will find yourselves together in a restaurant on February 14th. Roses may be gifted, chocolate confections may be consumed, and to drink – why, champagne of course. Is any other spirituous potable more synonymous with love than a bit of bubbly? The clinking of flutes or coupe glasses is an unmistakable counterpoint in the soundtrack of virtually every wedding and anniversary celebration.
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Beyond Snoop Dogg's cereal: Surprising celebrity-led food and drink brands
Snoop Dogg's cereal is making headlines, but he's far from the only celebrity with a food or drink brand.
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2024 Paris Olympics medals unveiled - and they're embedded with actual pieces of the Eiffel Tower
2024 Paris medalists will take a bit of France and its iconic landmark home with them. And it's legit pieces of the Eiffel Tower, in case you were wondering.
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Nokia-branded phones to coexist alongside our own for now, says HMD Global
Finnish mobile phone maker and Nokia’s official brand licensee HMD Global announced that it will move forward with a new multi-brand strategy where it would produce devices under a new HMD Original
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From videogame characters to AI avatars: An IP story
You might have spent entire evenings, if not days, playing as your favourite videogame character, looking forward to moving to the game’s next level and conquering new worlds.
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76% of European women find it challenging to ascertain whether a garment is genuinely eco-friendly
Is the attachment to fashion the same among European women? What about their sensitivity to trends?
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Chanel wins case against What Goes Around Comes Around
After a nearly one-month trial, Chanel has won its case against luxury reseller What Goes Around Comes Around. The jury voted in favour of Chanel unanimously on all four counts.
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Apply to WIPO Global Awards 2024
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has opened its 2024 Global Awards competition, inviting applications from small businesses and startups that use intellectual property (IP) to dr
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