Lawyers

• Indonesia's New Trademark Law is Challenging to Brand Owners

  Indonesia has passed new legislation for copyright, patent and trademark protection, that seems to pose some challenges to well-known brand owners.

• Google to Ban Torrent Sites: Piracy to be Solved by Dealing with Search Engines

  Google and other search engines like Yahoo and Bing agrees to ban Torrent sites from their search results starting June 1, 2017.

• China regulator blasts Alibaba for illegal business on its websites

  A China regulator has accused Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N) of failing to clean up what it called illegal business deals on the e-commerce titan's platforms, in an unusually strong government criticism of one of the country's biggest private firms.

• U.S. judge OKs Seattle artist's 'Angry Birds' lawsuit

  A U.S. judge has allowed a Seattle artist's intellectual property lawsuit to go forward over her claims she was cheated out of possibly millions of dollars from the sale of "Angry Birds" pet toys she designed, her attorney said on Tuesday.

• Xiaomi's India smartphone ban exposes wider patent risk

  The court order that banned Chinese mobile maker Xiaomi from selling its phones in India has halted its breakneck expansion into the world's fastest growing major smartphone market and could be just the start of a string of patent challenges.

• Judge dismisses wig lawsuit against rapper Nicki Minaj

  A judge has dismissed a $30 million federal lawsuit by a celebrity hair stylist who accused rapper and former "American Idol" judge Nicki Minaj of stealing his designs for the colorful wigs that helped boost her career.

• Pfizer, Ranbaxy win dismissal of lawsuit over generic Lipitor

  Pfizer Inc and India's Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd on Friday won dismissal of a U.S. antitrust lawsuit accusing them of conspiring to delay sales of generic versions of the best-selling cholesterol drug Lipitor.