Publications - Intellectual Property
Digital Services Act: The European Commission proposes a new regulatory framework for the Internet
The European Commission has just published its proposal to regulate digital services in two texts which even it considers ambitious: the Proposal for a Regulation on Digital Markets (analyzed here) and the Proposal on a…
The Influencers’ Code of Conduct comes into force on January 1, 2021: are you aware of your obligations?
Post from Garrigues' Intellectual Property blog.
During lockdown applications for utility models to stop viruses grew in Spain
Post from Garrigues' Intellectual Property blog.
Dispute regarding the European registration of the trademark ‘Neymar’: beating them all to it doesn’t always count
Blog 'Propiedad Intelectual e Industrial'.
Literature in film: the right to transformation, inspiration or parody?
Garrigues Intellectual Property Blog
Mexico has a new Federal Law for the Protection of Industrial Property and has amended the Federal Copyrights Law
On July 1st, 2020, a new Federal Law for the Protection of Industrial Property (Ley Federal de Protección a la Propiedad Industrial) (the New IP Law) was published in the Official Gazette of the Federation, repealing the former Industrial Property…
The CJEU does not require to disclosing users’ IP addresses
Intellectual property in the Andes region: how trademarks are protected in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
Garrigues Intellectual Property Blog.
‘Squeezamals’ case: at long last the cjeu will have to interpret the meaning of “disclosure” of an unregistered design
Blog Propiedad Intelectual e Industrial of Garrigues.
The EGC refuses to register the trademark "XOXO" (hugs and kisses)
The General Court of the European Union has refused the registration of the trademark "XOXO", considering that it does not fulfill the function of identifying the business origin because it has a merely promotional meaning: love and…
Use of the mark “in the course of trade” as a requirement for infringement: can use in a trading business be involved if someone pays you with cigarettes and alcohol?
A judgment by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has concluded that to determine whether use “in the course of trade” exists it is irrelevant whether the mark is used in the course of a person's trade or whether any…
Is the trademark Fack ju Göhte contraty to the accepted principles of morality?
Just when everyone thought they wouldn’t be able to register as a trademark the title of a famous German comedy from 2013 and its two sequels from 2015 and 2017: Fack ju Göhte, because it was contrary to accepted principles of morality, the…