Toy manufacturers frequently reproduce in miniature the original models created and sold by cars manufacturers, placing a particular importance on the exact reproduction of the original models by…
A personal name is nowadays frequently used as a trademark, trade name or sign. However, it is a source of litigation, as indicated by an important case law, to which belongs the judgement Elizabeth…
This decision is about the grounds of objection of a member of a Board of Appeal. The EPC's article related to this point of law is the Art. 24 EPC
The new edition of Nice Classification is in force as from January 1st, 2007
Two new countries (Bulgaria and Romania) will enter in the European Union on 01/01/2007
The Board pointed out that the term "suspensive effect" does not mean the immediate cancellation of the objected decision. The suspensive effect means that the consequences resulting from an objected…
Jugdment of the Court of First Instance of Paris of 12/07/2006 regarding trademarks in sponsored links of Google
Article 19 of the Decree 2008-1472 of 30/12/2008 abrogates Articles R624.1 to R624-7 of the French Intellectual Property Code, which gave the legal frame on the International Transfers of Technology.
Under Article 8(1) of the Revision Act, the revised European Patent Convention will enter into force two years after the fifteenth state has deposited its instrument of ratification or accession
On 29 December 2003, the President of the EPO, requested to the Enlarged Board of Appeal : to clarify the meaning of the wording "diagnostic methods practised on the human or animal body" within the…
