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If you ask the average Joe what a trade mark is, you may well be told that it's a product name. More business-savvy folks might say that a trade mark can be a logo, a slogan, a colour…

Scott Godes talks with Ken Suzan about cybersecurity threats to intellectual property.

Trade marks can take many forms, including words, logos, devices, product shapes, scents, tastes, and sounds. In this article, we'll be specifically focusing on sound marks.

Here is IP Think Tank’s weekly selection of top intellectual property news breaking in the blogosphere and internet. Highlights this week included:briefs filed in the US Supreme Court in an effort to revive the doctrine of patent exhaustion and another positive step towards a single European patent litigation system.

More than a year down the track, everyone concerned with IP must have heard of Ocean Tomo's IP Auctions.

Here is IP Think Tank’s weekly selection of top intellectual property news breaking in the blogosphere and internet.

In Disney Enterprises, Inc v Sondavid Pty Ltd [2008] FCA 1394 (11 September 2008), Disney sought an order pursuant to s 137(5) of the Trade Marks Act 1995 (Cth) (Act) to restrain the Customs CEO (until further order) from releasing certain goods seized by the Australian Customs Service (notified to Disney on 18 July 2008).

The UPC Court of Appeal recently overturned a first instance decision in the first case of SPC enforcement at the UPC, granting Merz a preliminary injunction against Viatris. The decision clarifies when a patentee must act to avoid undue delay in seeking provisional measures, emphasizing that applicants need sufficient certainty of imminent infringement before filing. The Court conducted a detailed analysis of French regulatory procedures and market practices to determine whether Merz had acted with reasona

January is widely considered to be named after a Roman god, Janus, who had two faces, which allowed him to look to the future and to the past.

Here is IP Think Tank’s weekly selection of top intellectual property news breaking in the blogosphere and internet.

The EPO and IP Australia have announced a 2-year pilot programme whereby Australian applicants can designate the EPO as their International Search Authority (ISA) and/or International Preliminary Examination Authority (IPEA) under the PCT.

In a recent decision, the First Hall of the Civil Court in Malta dismissed a claim for the invalidation of Malta trade mark no. 52531 in respect of the packaging mark...

The UPC Court of Appeal has provided detailed guidance on long-arm jurisdiction and referred critical questions to the CJEU regarding anchor defendants. This analysis examines recent cases including Genevant...

TDM is an essential tool in developing intelligent applications that require large volumes of raw text and data to ‘self-learn'. Developers of the most advanced Generative AI tools...

In 1856, a group of firms jointly acquired a dominant position in sewing machine's patents and formed the first patent pool in the world, which lasted till 1877.

Can you sue a group of related companies for patent infringement across Europe in one consolidated proceedings in a single jurisdiction?

Our Associate, Rishikaa discusses "Analyzing the concept of IPRs in creations of AI – Part 2: Granting Legal Personality to AI for purposed of IP law – A World View"...