European Union: Trade Secrets

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In recent years, the world of intellectual property has increasingly had to deal with a sensitive issue: the commercial use of indigenous cultural elements.

The '2024 Review of Notorious Markets for Counterfeiting and Piracy' by the US Trade Representative (USTR) reveals some positive developments in anti-counterfeiting by e-marketplaces...

On 9 February 2012, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the "ECJ") answered a preliminary question referred to it by the High Court of Justice of England and Wales (the "Referring Court") in Novartis AG ("Novartis") v. Actavis UK Ltd.

A recently published decision of the European Patent Office’s (EPO) Board of Appeal about European patents and clinical trials provides for interesting reading and for some important pointers about how to deal with clinical trials for medicinal products but also for medical devices as to not destroy novelty of a patentable invention with invalidity as result.

The patent of Oliver Brüstle that is at stake relates to purified neural precursor cells and to processes for their production from embryonic stem cells.

Le 15 mai 2025, la République fédérale démocratique d'Éthiopie a officiellement déposé son instrument d'adhésion à la Convention de Paris pour la protection de la propriété industrielle adoptée en 1883.

During its first two years, the UPC has already proven itself as a fast and reliable, high-quality venue, with a growing body of case law making it even more predictable day after day.

L'Office européen des brevets (OEB) propose désormais gratuitement des copies électroniques certifiées conformes de documents de priorité...

A new Led Zeppelin documentary, today reopens an old, but evidently never fully healed wound.

La multiplication de la diffusion sur tous les réseaux sociaux de dessins générés par l'intelligence artificielle...

Every year, WIPO dedicates a theme to World Intellectual Property Day, celebrated on April 26th