Can the technique of framing of works protected by copyright constitute an act of communication to the public of those works? In 2019, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) was called upon to interpret the concept of “communication to the public” in the...
Recently, the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center has issued a domain name decision concerning the domain “sanofi.sucks” registered by Privacy Hero Inc. among other companies. The domain was used for a blog in which third parties left comments and criticisms about the practices of the French...
With the rise of environmentalism and awareness to take care of the planet, the popularity that alternative products to milk of animal origin has reached is an indisputable reality. One of the beneficiaries of this trend is the Swedish company Oatly, specializing in oat-based dairy...
Kitchen robots allow us to cook healthier and faster. Their sales have soared in recent years, especially during the Covid-19 quarantine period. Is the market supply now down to one less? The robot “Monsieur Cuisine Connect”, one of the most popular and best-selling in Spain,...
– Get me a kleenex, a band-aid and an aspirin, please. I’ve cut my finger with a post-it while I was labelling the tupperwares. All these words that serve as nouns in the simulated conversation are part of our everyday language. However, we rarely realise that we are using brand names...
On 2 October 2020, India and South Africa asked the World Trade Organization (WTO) to waive intellectual property rules internationally for all medicines, vaccines, or diagnostic tests aimed at treating COVID-19 until global herd immunity is achieved, which the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates at...
The EU, which is the world leader in GI protection (more than 3,400), will strengthen its current protection and consider what to do with those of non-agricultural products. When and how? GIs, i.e. protected designations of origin and geographical indications, are names that, like trademarks, distinguish a...
On these dates of gifts and celebrations, we highlight the awareness campaign on counterfeiting launched by the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office under the slogan “Responsible shopping… ensures a future”. You can find more information on the website https://stopfalsificaciones.oepm.es/en/index.html and in #EligeElOriginal. Counterfeit products The consumption of counterfeit products has...
In September, the EUIPO’s Cancellation Division upheld the application for invalidity filed against the trademark registration for the iconic stencil “The flower thrower” because it considers that it was filed in bad faith. In February 2014, the popular and anonymous street artist Banksy filed, through the company Pest...
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