In an Academic Conference in the honour of the late Dr. Reinhold Cohn organized by the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Haifa University’s Center for Law and Technology and the Reinhold Cohn Group, the Israeli Industry and Trade Minister and Deputy Prime-Minister, Mr. Ehud Olmert, announced that Israel has agreed in principle to pass legislation protecting the information in pharmaceutical product files.

Have you defined all your databases? Appointed a data protection officer? Do you know what obligations apply to your databases?

The Regional Labor Court of Tel Aviv[1] recently ruled that anyone seeking to be hired for a job has an increased duty to disclose to the interviewer his ownership ...

On 31 July 2018, the Israeli Ministry of Health (MoH) published a "call for action", inviting the public to participate in the process of examining the need to amend Section 47D of the Pharmacists' Ordinance, ...

The Patents and Designs Ordinance, 1924, does not include provisions allowing the publication of the design in the official Designs Journal upon registration.

Israel's Supreme Court upheld that oral course lectures not documented by the lecturer are copyrightable, but allowed publisher's defense that he was unaware of the existence of such copyrights.

In a surprising development, the UK Government announced, on November 28, 2016, of its intention to ratify the Agreement on a Unitary Patent Court (UPC).

The recent ruling of the Nazareth district court was issued in an appeal filed in the matter of Sharir v. Nirit Zeraim Ltd.

In September 2017 the Jerusalem District Court held that the IDF had no obligation to designate the name of a soldier photographer in publications including photographs taken during a soldier's military service...

The Israeli Supreme Court recently issued an important and precedential decision recognizing, for the first time, the enforceability of Chinese court decisions in Israel.

We are pleased to announce that a new Israeli Design Law is coming into force today, August 7, 2018.

IP adjudicator found no likelihood of confusion between word mark BIG DEAL and stylised mark BIG DEAL

On 7 August 2018 a magistrates' court in Israel issued a ruling discussing the question of whether relief ought to be granted to pornographic filmmakers claiming infringement of their rights.

Israel is known as "the start-up nation" and so Israelis are ‘start-up people'. They are entrepreneurs at heart, thinkers, researchers and developers, fundraisers, advertisers, marketers and salespersons.

The author's right of attribution, namely that the work will bear a designation of the author's name, constitutes part of the author's moral right in the work.

Over the past few months rulings have been handed down that indicate tendency of courts to rigorously enforce moral rights of creators by awarding monetary compensation...

On 27 November 2017 the Tel Aviv District Court handed down a ruling denying a petition for an interlocutory injunction order which would have prevented the respondents in the case from using the name Voice of Hope as regards a particular radio station's activity in Israel