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03 Nov

Posted at 10:30h in Uncategorized

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]On July 23, 2020, German chocolate manufacturer Ritter Sport won a ten-year legal battle with competitor Milka (Mondelēz) after a ruling by the German Bundesgerichtshof (I ZB 43/19 and I ZB 42/19). Ritter Sport is allowed to keep...

19 Jun

Posted at 08:23h in Uncategorized

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Have an invention? Why not copyright protection? In its very recent ruling (case C-833/18), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that functional shapes may be protected under copyright law insofar as they are original. Background...

27 Apr

Posted at 07:48h in Uncategorized

IP Hills is extremely delighted to welcome Eva Eulaers as its newest member. Eva holds a Master of Science from the University of Liège (Belgium) and has achieved a PhD in Space Science. After completing her research, she worked for more than five years in a private practice...

20 Mar

Posted at 14:10h in Uncategorized

2019 is an interesting year for the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). After Canada, Brazil has now joined the Madrid Agreement. The Madrid system simplifies the process of obtaining trademark protection in 122 Member States. The international system for trademark registration makes it possible to apply...

20 Mar

Posted at 14:08h in Uncategorized

With Brexit arriving slowly but surely, it is time to look again at what the impact will be on your trademarks – see https://ipsilon-ip.eu/brexit/. The British Government has posted clear guidelines on their website (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/changes-to-trade-mark-law-after-brexit). We would like to summarize them for you: One thing remains...

20 Mar

Posted at 13:59h in Uncategorized

In the US the vocabulary for design patents was further extended by a judgement of the Court of Appeals in the case of Curver Luxembourg SARL v. Home Expression Inc. Curver[1] is the holder of a design patent entitled: ‘Surface ornamentation for a pattern for...

21 Jan

Posted at 15:41h in Uncategorized

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]With the United Kingdom threatening to leave us, the rest of Europe is coming together a little more closely. At least in terms of trademark law. The member states of the European Union had until 14 February 2019...

21 Jan

Posted at 15:37h in Uncategorized

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Will BoJo and Brexit have any effect on your trademark portfolio? If the British government can be taken at its word, there will be no effect, or hardly any. It has published a series of papers in which...

18 Dec

Posted at 15:31h in Uncategorized

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