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This week, two recent CJEU decisions on Zara and Audi trade marks relating to a similar question: when can someone use another company’s trade mark to identify the purpose of their own goods and services?
Read the latest updates in Brazil regarding patent applications.
European IP Helpdesk team just published a new IP Special covering a set of useful material focusing on important aspects of impact licensing.
On 29 January 2024, the Registry of Intellectual Property of Guatemala (RPI-GT) announced its decision on joining DesignClass. With that decision, Guatemala will then begin to adopt the Harmonised Database of Product Indications (HDBPI) list of terms in DesignClass.
The latest study from the European Patent Office (EPO) reveals a 70% increase in inventions targeting cancer between 2015 and 2021, as evidenced by the number of international patent families (IPFs).
Together with the European IP Helpdesk Ambassadors scheme and members of the core group of the EEN Single Market Thematic Group, European IP Helpdesk published a brand new guide “IP Handbook: Providing IP Guidance Through the EEN Client Journey”.
This week, we focus on a potential dispute involving Pokémon and the General Court case T-537/22 regarding the LEGO design.
The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (“IPOPHL”) Rules on Voluntary Administrative Site Blocking (“Site Blocking Rules”) or Memorandum Circular No. 2023-025 dated 20 September 2023, which allows the blocking of pirate websites by internet service providers (“ISP/s”)...
The European Parliament's proposal to prohibit the patenting of gene-edited plants has sparked a division of opinion among stakeholders.
The Plagiarius Prize winners 2024 have been announced. The jury awarded three main prizes, two new special awards and four distinctions.
On January 31, 2024, Myanmar’s Intellectual Property Department (IPD) announced that it would officially start accepting industrial design applications under the Industrial Design Law on February 1, 2024.
The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) decision in ZERODENSITY YAZILIM ANONIM SIRKETI v. Novel Brands USA LLC clarifies the law of passing off in Singapore and discusses the “classical trinity” test in establishing passing off.
To forge a closer relationship with the nation’s innovators and inventors, the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) and the Filipino Inventors Federation (FILINFED) signed a memorandum of arrangement (MOA).
DNPI Uruguay launches its new public search platform for trade marks and patents
The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) is piloting an avenue for interested parties to provide suggestions for descriptions of goods and services to be added into IPOS' classification database ("Database").
European IP Helpdesk team recently published a new Bulletin issue that seeks to gather different expert perspectives and viewpoints on Open Science practices while spotlighting related intellectual property issues and questions.
New non-traditional TMs in Uruguay are registrable from 1 March 2024.
This week in the news, updates on the US ban affecting Apple Watch and we look at a EU General Court decision on potentially similar trade marks.
The upcoming wave of startups from India is anticipated to center around intellectual property-based devices and products, Chandrasekhar said during a press conference on the National Startup Day.
In January 2014, Cambodia made a historic move to protect and celebrate its rich cultural and agricultural heritage by enacting the Law on Geographical Indications.