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Although the European patent with unitary effect or Unitary Patent was scheduled to enter into force in January 2023, its implementation has been delayed until 1 June 2023. Nonetheless, to encourage users to make use of the Unitary Patent, as of 1 January 2023 the European Patent Office (EPO) has introduced two transitional measures. What...Read More

On 14 January 2023, the transposition of Directive (EU) 2015/2436 to approximate the laws relating to trademarks was completed in Spain. What does this mean? Trademark invalidity and revocation actions may now be filed directly before the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO) and not before civil courts, thus avoiding lenghty and costly legal proceedings....Read More

[Original article published by INTA on March 17, 2021] The decision dated December 16, 2020 (Case T-118/20) reversed the decision of the Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). In doing so, it refused registration to EU Trade Mark (EUTM) application No. 017959421 applied for by Voco GmbH (the applicant) for...Read More

The Court of Justice of the European Union issued a decision on 12 June 2019 (C-705/17) accepting that the element of a compound trademark to which the disclaimer relates cannot be excluded from the global analysis of the relevant factors for determining the existence of a likelihood of confusion, and that the element cannot be...Read More

United Kingdom will leave the European Union on 31 January 2020. However, a 11-month transition period, that is until 31 December 2020, has been set for both parties to negotiate. The United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) has provided guidance on the changes in the protection of European Union trademarks and community designs after the...Read More

The CJEU is pondering over the standards that should be applied in the analysis of EU certification mark applications (case R-1650/2018) Certification marks, which were introduced under the 2017 reform of the European Union Trademark Regulation, have recently come once again under the spotlight after the Second Chamber of Appeals of the Court of Justice...Read More

Significant news on the patentability of artificial intelligence related inventions The European Patent Office (EPO) has recently published the guidelines for examining artificial intelligence (AI) related inventions. In principle, AI does not meet patentability requirements. However, there is a need to clarify some aspects that may make inventions using this technology patentable. As previoulsy mentioned,...Read More

El pasado 23 de octubre la Corte de Apelación de Reino Unido emitió la sentencia que ponía fin a la segunda instancia del asunto Unwired Planet vs. Huawei Technologies. El contexto judicial en el que pivota la citada resolución surge de un primer procedimiento en materia de infracción de patentes esenciales en el ámbito de...Read More

El próximo 1 de abril de 2017 entrará en vigor la nueva ley de patentes, que tiene como objetivo principal la actualización del derecho español para adecuarlo al ámbito internacional y europeo, así como simplificar y fortalecer el sistema español de patentes estableciendo un único procedimiento de concesión. Uno de los cambios más relevantes es...Read More

On 1 April 2017, the new Spanish Patent Act will come into force. This new law is aimed to bring the Spanish law system into conformity with European and international rules as well as to simplify and strengthen the Spanish patent system by establishing a single granting procedure. One of the most relevant changes introduced...Read More

La adopción de medidas cautelares inaudita parte se ha convertido casi en una práctica habitual de los Tribunales españoles ante una posible infracción de los derechos exclusivos del titular de la patente. Puede decirse que con ello el presunto infractor queda en tal tesitura que roza la indefensión incluso antes de que el Tribunal llegue...Read More

1) Falsificación: España y Hong Kong En Madrid fueron requisados unos 5.300 productos falsos por vulnerar derechos de Propiedad Industrial entre los que figuraban las marcas Levis y Ralph Lauren. Más detalles sobre la operación aquí . En Hong Kong una actuación contra la falsificación de cosméticos estaba siendo desarrollada desde el pasado 2013 y ha...Read More

La globalización, las transacciones entre países y el entorno digital han llevado a los consumidores a recibir una gran cantidad de información a diario. Estamos ante una sociedad sobrecomunicada que se refleja en un mercado saturado que cuenta con una excesiva oferta de productos y servicios. Estamos ante un consumidor muy experimentado que se enfrenta a una multitud de marcas...Read More

1) La investigación del Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts (MIT) para detectar  CÉLULAS CANCERÍGENAS USANDO ONDAS SONORAS El procedimiento, que sigue perfeccionándose, permite separar de la sangre del paciente las células afectadas por el cáncer. Estamos ante un avance en el método al ser hasta veinte veces más rápido que la versión presentada el año anterior....Read More

In our previous posts we talked about generic medicines for hepatitis c in Spain but there are other diseases that haven’t got a generic equivalent such as Insulin. A generic version of insulin, the only medicne for diabetes has never been  available in the United States because pharmaceutical companies have made incremental improvements that have...Read More