IP Watchdog
MARCH 26, 2025
The flexible approach of In re Maatita to definiteness embodies the idea that designs can be depicted in a variety of ways while still being reasonably understood by the ordinary observer.
Michael Geist
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
That meeting sparked what became a 16-year open process to develop much-needed anti-racism tools, including the creation of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism.
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The IPKat
AUGUST 2, 2021
Just before closing down for summer vacation, Advocate General (AG) Saugmandsgaard Øe issued his Opinion in Case C-123/20 concerning the protectability of ‘partial designs’ (design rights for part of a product) as an unregistered Community design right.
The IPKat
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
In this ruling, which originated from a design invalidity claim before the EUIPO (OHIM, as it was known then), the Court of Justice construed the meaning of the ‘informed user’. Under EU design law, the ‘informed user’ is the standard on the basis of which it examines both the validity and the infringement of a design.
The IPKat
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
On November 29, 2022, the European Commission published the long-awaited proposals for a revised Regulation and revised Directive on designs. New definitions for “design” and “product” (Art. 3 Draft Regulation) Draft Directive and Draft Regulation suggest a new definition for “design” and “product”, respectively.
The IPKat
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
EUIPO also announced that, so far, the Office has registered the following applications related to NFTs and the metaverse: In this context, EUIPO held the webinar “ Trade marks and designs in the metaverse: legal aspects/EUIPO practice ” some days ago. Challenges involving designs in the metaverse were also addressed. see here ).
Patently-O
JULY 30, 2021
A potentially important product design trademark case is pending before the U.S. Glico sued for trademark infringement, asserting Glico’s trademark rights in the product design of chocolate-covered elongated rod biscuits. The district court found that the design is functional and therefore not protectable by trademark.
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