On February 24, 2021, WIPO published the announcement of the accession of Pakistan (Islamic Republic of Pakistan) to the Madrid Protocol, becoming the 124th member of the Madrid System.
Spain has been removed, for the first time since 2017, from the “Notorious Markets List 2020” blacklist drawn up annually by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), which highlights online and physical markets that reportedly engage in or facilitate substantial trademark counterfeiting and copyright piracy.
Mercantile Court No. 5 in Barcelona issued a judgement on 19 January 2021, accepting in full the patent infringement claim lodged by the German company Vorwerk against Lidl Supermercados, the Spanish subsidiary of the German retailer Lidl.
Companies try their best to adapt to change, but sometimes it seems that if you don’t follow trends in the sector or new technology trends, you become obsolete. Pilar Soriano, Sales Director at ELZABURU, offers a useful and practical approach, in an effort to help companies envision new professional projects that entail a certain degree of innovation or disruption.
Despite the uncertain times we have been living through over the past year, it seems that the European Union’s commitment to promoting industrial leadership in Europe remains intact.
Horizon 2020 (H2020) is the programme for funding research and innovation projects in the European Union for the period 2014-2020. Coinciding with the end of the H2020 programme and with the same aim, the European Commission is now preparing its follow-up programme, Horizon Europe.
On 15 December 2020, the European Commission finally published the long-awaited proposal for a Digital Services Act, as well as the proposal for a regulation on digital markets.
The Court of Justice issued a judgment on 11 November 2020 (C-809/18 P; MINERAL MAGIC) in which it had the opportunity, for the first time, to establish the requirements that must be fulfilled for application of Article 8(3) of the Regulation on the European Union Trademark (EUTMR), which concerns the case informally known as the of the “unfaithful agent”.
Even though online platforms play an increasingly important role in our everyday lives, the current EU rules on digital services have to a large extent remained unaltered. What is the forthcoming next step in the fight against online counterfeit?
Jesús Gómez Montero shares his thoughts on the issue of mandatory use of a registered trademark, in the light of the content of some recent decisions handed down by the constituent courts of the Court of Justice of the European Union.
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