Intellectual Property Law and Copyright Laws

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.

Par une décision n° OP 22-3593 du 19 juill. 2023 l'INPI a reconnu un risque de confusion entre la marque antérieure BIENVENUE et sa demande de marque WELCOME, pour des produits en classe 3.

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across the European Union that apply to register their industrial property rights this year can recover up to 75 % of the official registration fees...

In the fast-moving world of startups, intellectual property is often a business's most valuable and most overlooked asset.

Over the last couple of years, it has become clear that Trademark and Copyright owners have a tense relationship with the Internet Service Providers.

Under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), there can be a relatively fine line between the permissible use of an acronym as a domain name and the impermissible use of a trademark.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organisation in charge of assigning and coordinating Internet identifiers, has opened a first application round for the registration of new generic top level domains ("New gTLDs") on 12 January 2012.

Trade secrets are among a company's most valuable assets, safeguarding competitive advantages in industries ranging from technology to manufacturing.

L'analyse, le traitement ou la corrélation des données brutes au moyen d'algorithmes sophistiqués, d'outils d'intelligence artificielle et de systèmes de gestion de données...

Navigating the UPC's evidence minefield: when confidentiality issues clash with procedural deadlines.