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After much dispute, discussion and delay, the Unified Patent Court launch officially took place this morning at 9 am CET (1 June 2023). From now, organisations can benefit from a new unitary patent (U...

In disputes over pharmaceutical trademarks, the courts take a precautionary approach to exclude any risk of confusion between two medicines marketed under similar brand names. However, this restrictiv...

Find out about the practice of parallel imports in the context of two recent EU rulings on the branding of generic medicinal products.

Changes to trademark registration requirements promised to spell a new era for non-traditional trademarks in the EU. But, what has changed for trademark owners?

The sessions scheduled at INTA's 2023 Annual Meeting remind us that trademarks are not the only rights to consider when looking at brand protection.

Why it is important for women to be part of climate change innovation solutions, and highlighting a few of the women leading the way, to celebrate World IP Day.

Silicon Valley Bank held pledges on numerous patent rights. Discover how patent pledges work and what the collapse of SVB means for affected patent holders.

Artist Mason Rothschild had to pay Hermès US$133k in April, after a jury rejected his defence of freedom of expression to find him guilty in metaverse trademark infringement ruling.

Air France KLM has successfully brought EU trademark opposition proceedings for the trademark ‘Flying Blue’ and the domain name flyingblue.com.

A recent decision by the EPO on neural network patentability has interesting implications for artificial intelligence and other computer-derived innovations.

Non-traditional trademarks, such as shape, smell and sound marks, are becoming increasingly popular. Find out how to register a sound mark in the EU.

The 2022 Review of Notorious Counterfeiting and Piracy Markets by the USTR has assessed online marketplace counterfeiting and ranked sites by worst offender.

Learn how a single letter can be registered as a trademark, but enforcing short signs, such as a single letter trademark, is another challenge.

We provide a helpful ‘need-to-know’ overview of NFT domains and their implications for IP rights holders, and advice on how best to protect your IP rights in Web 3.0.

In December 2022, the EU General Court discussed the assessment of the likelihood of confusion in the context of the dispute between the holders of the ‘Well and Well’ and ‘WellBe Pharmaceuticals’ tra...

Users of Novagraaf’s IP portal EasyIP now have access to a wider range of functionality, including direct access to their trademark watch alerts.

The international systems for trademark and design protection continue to expand with Brazil the latest country to file an instrument of accession to the design protection system and Mauritius accedin...

Most IP legislation was designed to support trademark protection in physical markets. Megan Taylor discusses strategies for brand protection online in light of recent rulings by the EU and UK.

In its December 2022 preliminary ruling, the Court of Justice of the EU found that Amazon’s practice of displaying ads for counterfeit Christian Louboutin shoes makes the e-tailer liable for online tr...

Learn how to challenge unfair commercial practices that prevent consumers from making informed decisions, and impact companies' bottom lines and reputations.