Transitional measures for the forthcoming entry into force of the Unitary Patent The Unitary Patent is expected to enter into force on 1 June 2023, with unitary effects in all the Member States of the European Union participating in the system. Currently, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia,...
Artificial intelligence The concept of "artificial intelligence" (AI) was coined in 1956 at the Darthmouth conference to refer to "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines, particularly intelligent computer programs", using the definition proposed by John McCarthy, one of its founders, in 2007. Along the...
The Government of Belize deposited its instrument of accession to the Madrid Protocol with WIPO on 24 November 2022 and it will enter into force on 24 February 2023. Belize is the most recent addition to the Madrid System. With it, an international trademark can at present designate up to 129 countries. The Madrid...
We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for trusting us and wish you all the best for the festive season, hoping that 2023 will bring peace. Due to public holidays our offices will be closed on 26 December 2022 and 6 January 2023....
We are making it simpler! As of 31 October 2022, our domain name will be: curell.com Our general e-mail will be: mail@curell.com and for our Madrid and Alicante offices: madrid@curell.com and alicante@curell.com, respectively. For the members of our team the new e-mails will look like this: xxx@curell.com, ‘xxx’ standing...
Directive 2015/2436 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2015 to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trademarks provides in Art. 45 that Member States shall provide for an efficient and expeditious administrative procedure before their offices for...
If there is one topic that everyone is talking about, it is the metaverse. This term, which seems futuristic, appeared 30 years ago in the science fiction novel Snow Crash (1992), where Neal Stephenson describes a type of collective virtual space, compatible with physical reality, which he calls...
The month of April has brought us a new revision of the EUIPO Examination Guidelines. And, this time, they propose an important change that will affect the strategy behind the withdrawal of certain EU trademark applications. Which is the proposed change? Decisions refusing EUTM applications on absolute...
About a year ago, CURELL SUÑOL reported news that had hit the European trademark scene: the cancellation of the European Union figurative mark No. 12575155 “The Flower Thrower” of the well-known artist and graffiti artist Banksy, its author, who operates through the British company Pest...
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