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.
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.
As of 12 October 2020, Trinidad and Tobago forms part of the long list of countries that belong to the system for the international registration of trademarks. Specifically, it is number 123 on the list.
When it seemed that Lionel Messi had finally ceased to be newsworthy after an eventful summer, on 17 September 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJ) handed down its judgment in cases C-449/18 y C-474/18 on the appeals lodged by the EUIPO and J.M.- E.V. e hijos S.R.L. against the judgment of the General Court (GC).
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