New decision The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has recently issued a new decision (C-684/21; 02/03/2023) on the question of how to determine whether a feature of appearance of a registered design is solely dictated by its technical function. This is an important topic...
On February 17, 2023, the German government deposited its instrument of ratification of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court. This confirms that the implementation schedule for the “Unitary Patent Package” will be as announced: The Sunrise Period will start on 1 March 2023. The Unitary Patent and...
Pharmacies have changed a lot through years and have developed into shops where consumers navigate in an avalanche of products (medicinal, dietary, hygiene, etc.) which can be easily interconnected and used in the same treatments -but with different focus-as they are all intended to improve...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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