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...
The "Ideas Powered for business" SME Fund is a grant scheme designed to assist 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 Property Office (EUIPO) and...
On 13 July 2022, the long-running legal battle between two of the world’s largest manufacturers of machinery for the natural resources industry, among others, came to an end. We are talking about the famous dispute between Caterpillar Inc. and Tigercat International Inc. Caterpillar Inc, known to...
On 28 July last, Organic Law 7/2022, of 27 July, was published in the Official State Gazette, amending Organic Law 6/1985, of 1 July, on the Judiciary, in relation to the Commercial Courts. This Law has a major impact on our intellectual property practice as, among...
Hijos de Moisés Rodríguez González, S.A. is a Spanish company located in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. In 1967, it signed a contract with the Irish company, Ornua Co-operative Ltd, for the supply of butter. As a result of that contract and in the same...
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...
On July 22, 2022, the Geneva Act of 1999 of the Hague Agreement concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs will enter into force in Morocco. It is worth noting that Morocco has been a contracting State of the Hague Act of 1960. With the adhesion to...
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...
As many will recall, a year ago, the Commercial Court No. 5 of Barcelona upheld the legal action of Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH (“Vorwerk”), manufacturer of the Thermomix® multi-purpose kitchen appliance, against the supermarket chain Lidl Supermercados, S.A. (“Lidl”), declaring that Lidl’s “SilverCrest Monsieur...
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