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...
In 1960, the prehistory of cooking technological innovations, a product was invented in France that, years later, would find its way into millions of homes: an electric mixer that incorporates a heating system. It was the spur of a revolution and Vorwerk started selling its...
Royal Decree 306/2019, of 26 April, modifying the Implementing Regulation of the Spanish Trademark Act 17/2001, was published in the Official State Gazette of 30 April 2019. As you will recall, at the end of 2018 the Spanish Trademark Act was reformed introducing the possibility for...
It is less than 10 days until 29 March 2019, the date on which the United Kingdom (UK) is, under current UK law and Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, scheduled to leave the European Union (EU). The recent votes in the British...
On February 21, 2019 the Law on Business Secrets 1/2019, of February 20 was published in the Official Spanish Gazette. It transposes into Spanish Law the Directive (EU) 2016/943 of the European Parliament and of the Council, of June 8, 20016 on the protection of...
The European Commission (EC) recently published the first Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List, which identifies marketplaces, registrars and hosting providers located outside the EU that facilitate counterfeiting and piracy. The list has been made after a public consultation. The majority of respondents were businesses and brand owners,...
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