Yummie Tummie vs. Spanx, Women Shapewear Design issue

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Women shapewear manufacturer Yummie Tummie sued its rival company Spanx for design patent infringement.

According to Worldipreview, Yummie Tummie claimed that Spanx copied their design. Yummie Tummie said that Spanx products Total Taming Tank, Top This Tank Style 1847 and Top This Cami Style 1846 are their design which is patented. Yummie Tummie seeks damages and attorneys’ fees. Spanx responded back with details how different their designs in March.

To read more about this issue, click here. 

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Creative Advertisement

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This is one of popular snack brand Oreo’s advertisement. It used an optical illusion effect which people can see some black and white dots. Oreo has black and white sides and those dots could get kids’ attention.

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This advertisement made by a magazine ‘Rolling Stone’ for celebrating ‘World Day for Water’. There is a yellow submarine on desert and it is motivated from ‘Yellow Submarine’ by Beatles. The ad indicates that there will be no music if there’s no water. 

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Unicef ad shows happy family’s activities when they are not watching TV. Children riding bikes, A baby with dad and a kid playing violin is reflected in the TV screen and it says there are more valuable things when TV is turned off. 

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Korean military is struggling with its high-priced IP outcomes

According to KIPO, KIPO, Korea Army, Korea Air Force, and the Korea Patent Attorneys Association signed a “Working agreement for the building of a military intellectual property ecosystem” at Gyeryongdae, where Korean Army and Air Force headquarters placed on April 8. 

The agreement is mainly for avoiding high-cost private-sector patent monopolies on military R&D. 
According to KIPO, many private companies have exclusively registered patents based on the military’s R&D outcomes. 

Korean Army and Air Force will utilize patent attorneys to improve the expertise of IP management organizations for their own.  KIP also will allow them to access its online educational resources and training to develop the knowledge and expertise of military personnel exclusively working on IP. 

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