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Video recordings in the cloud are a copyright violation or a legal private copy?

February 20

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Tags: copyright, private copy
Date: 20 February, 2018
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Video recordings in the cloud: not just a matter of private copy

I remember, when I was 15 or 16 years old, how proud I was of the VHS / SVHS video recorder that I had just bought, after having saved for a long time. Finally, I had it on the table: it was beautiful and technological. At that time, I was dreaming of becoming a film […]...

imagen marca union europea para nueno reglamento de proteccion y registro de marcas

October 13

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Date: 13 October, 2017
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The European Union Trade Mark: new Regulation (EU) 2017/1001

If we assume that trade marks, among other functions, enable consumers to identify the goods or services offered by one undertaking and to distinguish them from those of another, it is easy to understand the fundamental role played by distinctive signs, not only for large enterprises but also for SM...

example of animated design that can be protected accoding to intellectual property laws

September 15

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Tags: animated design protection, registered design
Date: 15 September, 2017
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Protecting animated designs

Usually the laws on Design protection do not consider moving drawing as cartoons, instead they refer to “traditional” design or to other kind of publication format that sometimes are obsolete or overcome by the evolution of technology. Aware of this problem and with a quite pragmatic approach, s...

patentability of plant and animal varieties, example of tomatoes field

September 04

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Tags: animal varieties, plant varieties, protection of biotechnological inventions
Date: 4 September, 2017
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Recent developments on the patentability of plant and animal varieties through essentially biological processes

According to Article 4 of the Directive 98/44/EC of 6 July 1998 on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions (EU Biotech Directive) plant and animal varieties are excluded from the scope of patentable subject matter. It also establishes that essentially biological processes for the product...

Kurt Hesse vs Ferrari on exclusive rights on the trademark "Testarossa"

August 15

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Date: 15 August, 2017
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Ferrari loses Testarossa trademark in Germany

The provincial Court of Dusseldorf (Germany) recently decided to cancel the German and international trade mark “Testarossa” for insufficient use of the same. Said Court seems, thus, to agree with the argumentation of the German toy company Kurt Hesse, according to which Ferrari has no l...

development of the law on patentable inventions

April 18

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Tags: intellectual property
Date: 18 April, 2017
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New Patent Law in Spain: a stronger title arrives.

On April 1, 2017, the new Patent Law (“Law 24/2015 of July 24, on Patents”) came into force with the aim of modernizing and strengthening the Intellectual Property protection system in Spain. The previous law dates back to 1986 and emerged in a particular historical context in which Spai...

Trade secret protection. Legal service for companies

April 01

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Date: 1 April, 2017
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Trade secrets

Investment in research aimed at the acquisition, development and application of knowledge is essential for companies in order to survive in a market as competitive as the current one. In this sense, Intellectual Property—through copyright, the granting of patents and the registration of industrial...

agreement after litigation on the copyright related to the design of cans and bottles

February 12

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Tags: copyright, copyright litigation
Date: 12 February, 2017
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Agreement on beer cans after litigation on the copyright

Finally, after several months of litigation on the copyright related to the design of cans and bottles, Oettinger will be able to continue to use the trademark “5,O original” to sell its beers, thanks to an agreement reached with the design studio Feldmann und Schultchen (hereinafter ...

Conflict on essential patents between Apple and Ericcson. Image of a cannon to represent the battle

February 07

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Tags: essential patents, FRAND, license agreement, patent litigation
Date: 7 February, 2016
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War and peace: agreement between Apple and Ericsson on essential patents

In peacetime, the famous producer of the iPhone paid, for a long time, royalties to Ericsson for the use of its technology (including the radio communication standard “4G”), protected by over 40 patents. However, war burst as soon as the license agreement expired. From that moment on App...

identity theft is a form of internet crimes that is growing in numbers

November 11

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Tags: counterfeit products, e-commerce, internet crimes, online identity theft
Date: 11 November, 2015
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Online stores under fake name

Recently, a German radio program (“NDR info”) carried out investigations whose findings indicate how, in recent times, thousands of Internet data have been unlawfully used to open online stores and sell counterfeit products as, for instance, sunglasses, shoes or bags of famous brands. Vi...