Mobile World Congress (MWC) is the world’s largest and most influential congress for the mobile and connectivity industry. It brings together the latest innovations and leading-edge technology alongside today’s most influential visionaries (https://www.mwcbarcelona.com/). This year’s edition will be held again in Barcelona from February 22...
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO, Geneva) is preparing for the 2023 edition of its World Intellectual Property Awards, which will reward small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that make intelligent use of Intellectual Property. The application period ends on the 31st of March 2023. It is...
The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO, Alicante) is holding this year the biennial DesignEuropa Awards. The DesignEuropa Awards are intended to raise awareness of the design protection system in the European Union and to promote design as a valuable intellectual property right that underpins our...
Background In November 2021 we announced on Curell Suñol's blog that Banksy lost his EU trademark number 12575155 (the flower thrower) and, subsequently, in another article in February 2022, we explained that the nightmare continued because other EU trademark registrations were declared invalid as well,...
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...
What is the SME Fund? The "Ideas Powered for Business" SME Fund is a grant programme designed to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the EU in the field of Intellectual Property (IP) rights. It is a European Commission initiative implemented by the European Union Intellectual...
Copyright is limited in time. In Spain, and in most European countries, generally the duration of the copyright of a work is the life of the author plus seventy years after his death. When the term of protection of rights has expired, the work or...
On 14 January last, the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO) assumed direct competence for resolving applications for invalidity and revocation. With this change, the Trademark Law establishes that: The competence to declare the invalidity and revocation of the distinctive signs regulated in this Law shall correspond directly...
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