The British publication The Daily Mirror contains this inspirational series of profiles on the ten members of the first Refugee Olympics Athletic Team. The team includes “two Syrian swimmers, two judokas from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a marathoner
The IOC is playing trademark bully—because they can
The Olympic Games are almost here and—right on schedule—companies are already brushing up against the bristles of the intellectual property of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
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The Olympics! Officially Protected from Zika by OFF!
The Summer Olympics are with us again, in what has been a great summer for sports. Besides the normal summer sports highlights, soccer fans have gotten a special second year in a row of the Copa America, not so great
Sex-Testing Female Athletes: Humiliation Masquerades as Gender Fairness
New York Times (June 28, 2016): The Humiliating Practice of Sex-Testing Female Athletes, by Ruth Padawer:By all accounts Dutee Chand is a running star likely to win a gold medal for India in the Rio Olympics. But along the
Zika & Destination Weddings
From the New York Times:Fear, if not the reality of the Zika virus and the mosquitoes that carry it, has not only cast its shadow on the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in August, but is upending the carefully
When It Comes to the Year’s Biggest Sporting Events, Don’t Fumble Your Ad Campaign
Photo by Jim G [CC BY 2.0] via FlickrWill the Patriots’ dreams of heading to this year’s Super Bowl® get deflated? What, exactly, will Olympic® gold medalist Ryan Lochte do in Rio?
AIPPI Publishes Rio-Resolution and Country Reports on Specific Aspects of Trade Secrets Enforcement
The International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) recently published the four resolutions that were adopted at its World IP Congress in Rio de Janeiro last month. These resolutions are based on the feedback received throughout 2015 from
Journal Quaestio Iuris Call for Papers
The Journal Quaestio Iuris (ISSN 1516-0351), quarterly electronic publication of the professors of Law School of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), classified by Brazilian Ministry of Education as Qualis A2, Law, has announced a call for papers
IACHR Takes Cases Against Brazil and Venezuela to Inter-American Court
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR or Commission) has filed two new cases with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights - one against Brazil and one against Venezuela. The following information is taken from press releases issued by the