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2020 has been a year like no other. The world health emergency caused by the spread of COVID-19 and the resulting declaration of a state of emergency (lockdown) in Spain in March 2020 brought an unprecedented whirl of legislative activity. Companies…
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…
Post from Garrigues' Intellectual Property blog.
Post from Garrigues' Intellectual Property blog.
Blog 'Propiedad Intelectual e Industrial'.
Garrigues Intellectual Property Blog
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…
Garrigues Intellectual Property Blog.
Blog Propiedad Intelectual e Industrial of Garrigues.
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…
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…