Donald, Where's Your Troosers? - piece of fabric found in peat bog in Scottish Highlands heralded as "the oldest traditional tartan ever found". Mind you, strange place to go skinny dipping, unless Scotland was the first nation to…lnkd.in/dG_KcSVP lnkd.in/dgZJ7r3i

Adidas withdraws USPTO opposition against Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation application for trade mark featuring words "Black Lives Matter" and three parallel stripes. Adidas had claimed that the design would create conf…lnkd.in/d_wE3V_w lnkd.in/dkMVTsFi

Court snuffs out author's copyright infringement claim against John Lewis for want of evidence that the John Lewis creative team were aware of Fred The Fire-Sneezing Dragon character prior to Excitable Edgar development. #copyrig…lnkd.in/esAa6tcZ lnkd.in/emjpS5C3

Could be a nail-biter - Mancunian nail designer claims Shein infringed designs. #designs #copyright #designright #intellectualproperty #thinkingsolicitors #strathipcctut5 lnkd.in/eHPKaF8u

The Craft Beer Co. accuse M&S of taking the shirt off their back, quite literally. #copyright #trademark #passingoff #clothing #branding #marketing #intellectualproperty #thinkingsolicitors #strathipcctut3 lnkd.in/dhz6mef9

Aye, AI - photographer Boris Eldagsen rejects Sony world photography award on ground work was AI-generated and designed to provoke debate. #creativity #photo #photography #copyright #moralrights #AI #articialintelligence #thinking…lnkd.in/evdEnkCy lnkd.in/e-m7nE-k

High Court rules Tesco's Clubcard logo copied Lidl's logo, which both use a yellow circle on a square blue background. #brands #icons #logos #lidl #tesco #copyright #trademarks #intellectualproperty #thinkingsolicitors #strathipcctut3 lnkd.in/ea_yWXUV

Fab four - Martha Gerrish's descriptions of the stars in 1734, William Herschel's letter regarding discovery of Uranus 1782, William Henry Fox Talbot's photographic experiments in 1839, and Gideon Mantell's detailed drawings of din…lnkd.in/e5-fq_au lnkd.in/e3e-pQdG

First Gwynnie's cakes, now Ed serenades: jury duty in 2023 appears to be on the up. Ronald Gladden even won $100K (lnkd.in/esSzs_9V). #juryduty lnkd.in/eDxKUrh6

You're gonna hear me roar - Australian fashion designer Katie Taylor beats Katheryn Hudson in KATIE PERRY / KATY PERRY trade mark dispute. "This is a tale of two women, two teenage dreams and one name," Justice Brigitte Markovic w…lnkd.in/eW-5QBdH lnkd.in/eQBpM2Th

High Court orders White Lantern Film to pay actress Eva Green $1m (£810,000) fee for A Patriot sci-fi film that never got made. In particular, without evidence of renounciation, repudiatory breach, or express or implied conclusive…lnkd.in/eXGP3qUM lnkd.in/eHdihpwX

Bricking it - from $1bn (£800m) valuation to sold for £1, online estate agent Purplebricks agree sale of business and assets to rival Strike, after race to bottom on fixed fees and putting end to yet another AIM debacle. #property…lnkd.in/engpjGEa lnkd.in/ejj6Vryf

Pound going strong? - SVB (UK) sold to HSBC in March for £1, PURP sold to Strike in May for £1; now Ferguson Marine may go for £1. Perhaps its time to check to see if there could be a business down the back of the sofa? Worth k…lnkd.in/dengj99a lnkd.in/dfrPUD-g

Yay! Thanks to Martin Parr the Gourock Pool - Scotland's oldest outdoor heated swimming pool, and my old local - features on the cover of Britpop band Blur's new album. Could very well be me in the foreground... #music #gourock #a…lnkd.in/eb8uukb2 lnkd.in/esPU8BxE

Three Quines in The Fountain - female protesters from Ultima Generazione release "vegetable charcoal" into Rome's Trevi Fountain purportedly corrupting 300,000 litres of water in campaign against government subsidies of fossil fuel. lnkd.in/egBtZxjE

Still Game creators defend JACK & VICTOR trade mark application against opposition by the Brown–Forman Corporation, as Hearing Officer rules differences JACK & VICTOR and JACK DANIEL'S are too great for the relevant public to belie…lnkd.in/eZH-apd7 lnkd.in/eVmyjzDH

Mirror mirror on my phone, where's my royalties for using my clone? - Hollywood actors seek new deal over use of AI ‘digital doubles’. #image #imagerights #contract #ai #digitaldoubles #commercialcontracts #thinkingcontracts #thin…lnkd.in/e6iviCt3 lnkd.in/eGnhiXbx

US Supreme Court gives VIP Products LLC paws (sic) for thought as Brown–Forman Corporation successfully defend JACK DANIEL'S intellectual property from unauthorised profiting and consumer confusion by wrongful association of Jack D…lnkd.in/ekq7fEsb lnkd.in/eJq2nqZP

'Extrication' rights"? - Beatle employs artificial intelligence to "extricate" John Lennon's voice from an old demo in order to create "the final Beatles record". #music #artificialintelligence #imagerights #voicerights #copyright…lnkd.in/ezswiwGc lnkd.in/eGZUmf_4

Say what? - enterprise value of Apple Inc now greater than the entire FTSE 100. #AAPL #NASDAQ #ftse100 #apple #techstocks #thinkingcorporate #thinkingsolicitors #startups #uogcorptut lnkd.in/e2AgR4-P