Sara Navarro Joven comments a recent judgment (Case T‑193/18, 24 March 2021) by the General Court, which has revealed the importance of precise descriptions in applications for the registration of trademarks consisting of a combination of colours.
Colm Ahern, partner at ELZABURU, analyses in this article the functionality and practicality of the so-called court “transfers” and how the latest legislative changes have influenced the whole process.
On 1 June 2021 a fourth reform of the Patent Law of the People’s Republic of China will enter into force, introducing a series of important amendments regarding protection of industrial designs in China.
Barcelona’s commitment to celebrate the MWC 2021 seems happily firm, which means the Protocol to ensure swift action on precautionary measures and preliminary proceedings for infringement of industrial and intellectual property rights has been made public. We present the main aspects to be considered in this article.
The Digital Green Certificate (DGC) of vaccination is intended to help to ensure that restrictions currently in place can be lifted in a coordinated manner and thus facilitate the free movement of EU citizens, but what privacy requirements must be met?
Conflicts between company names and trademarks (or tradenames) are very common. In this article, María Cadarso clarifies for us the relationship and differences between the respective concepts.
In the last few years, the so-called “Eurasian IP System” has emerged in Northern Europe to harmonize and unify, to a certain extent, the registration of trademarks in Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia.
General Court has confirmed in its judgment dated 10 March 2021, that registration of the trade mark KERRYMAID in the EU cannot be permitted on grounds of the likelihood of confusion with the earlier trade mark KERRYGOLD.
After almost 30 years since the Somalia Intellectual Property Office was closed, as a result of the very serious civil war, and thanks to a very slow but essential process of reconstruction of a failed state, the Somalia Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) has been established in Mogadishu.
The Provincial Appellate Court of Madrid has upheld the dismissal of the unfair competition complaint lodged by Heineken against its competitor Mahou in relation to the advertising for the launch of Mahou Cinco Estrellas Radler in the summer of 2018.
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