The UK parliamentary elections on December 12, 2019 saw the Conservative Party winning a comfortable majority, increasing the likelihood for ratification, by the UK Parliament and the EU,...

3D-printing changes the way we develop products: an idea can be transformed into a tangible product faster than ever and it is not even expensive anymore!

Deadline extensions RoP are assessed strictly: party consent does not bind the Court where the extension would jeopardise hearing preparation

The claim to inspection in commercial intellectual property law is currently developing on an ongoing basis.

It is only one example of many, but it grasps the very essence of the issue: In 2013, a New York City coffee shop owner got a tattoo on his right hand saying "I [coffee cup] NY."

The license holder of the trademark "Posterlounge" brought a lawsuit against the operator of a price comparison website.

Can a wordmark with a particular meaning be infringed by a three-dimensional product design? Disputes regarding the infringement of a wordmark by a purely figurative mark (and vice versa) have been the object of several decisions by German courts of appeals and the German Federal Supreme Court.

Piracy and counterfeiting by entities operating in non-EU member states is causing considerable damage to the intellectual property of companies operating in the EU. Manufacturers of branded goods must therefore do everything in their power to protect themselves. One option worth considering is coordinated confiscation of infringing goods throughout the EU – including confiscation at trade fairs.

The Design Quarterly newsletter provides an overview of the latest developments in the field of design protection in Europe.

Recently, the European Patent Office (EPO) published their study "Market success for inventions – Patent commercialization scoreboard: European SMEs," which investigates the importance of European patents...

On April 30, 2008 Germany’s Federal Supreme Court issued a further ruling, contributing to a set of 3-D trademark decisions related to the requirements of successful enforcement and, in particular, the mark-in-suit’s scope of protection (see also IP-Report 2007/IV No. 5).

On March 29, 2019, the United Kingdom (UK) will leave the European Union (EU).

Can you sell and buy .de domain names.

In this Quick Tip, I would like to focus on the question of what this new world means for your trademark applications.

In order to be considered part of the state of the art (Art. 54 (1) EPC), an invention must be found clearly integrally, directly and unambiguously in one single piece of prior

It is not only since the days of the Internet that brand manufacturers have had to contend with the fact that original products are offered outside of their authorized sales channels.

Given that it is much easier for the consumer to pick or differentiate between certain items, styles and washes within a clothing line or collection by name rather than by an article code sequence, fashion houses have established a practice to use style names.

The EU Trademark Regulation (2015/2424/EU) (the "new Regulation") amending the Community Trademark Regulation (the "old Regulation") entered into force on 23 March 2016.