Publications - Intellectual Property
God Save the Queen: what will happen to the Royal Warrants granted by the late Queen?
Garrigues IP Blog
Can content be added to a patent application already filed or to a patent already granted?
Post from Garrigues' Intellectual Property blog.
Important changes in consumer protection laws: from sanctions for the use of absolutely prohibited clauses to additional information duties
Portuguese Decree-Law no. 109-G/2021 published on last December 10, proceeds with the partial transposition of Directive (EU) 2019/2161 into the Portuguese legal order and amends several consumer protection rules contained in different diplomas.…
Portugal: New consumer rights in the sale and purchase of digital services, contents and goods
Decree-Law 84/2021, dated October 18, has been published, regulating consumer rights in the sale and purchase of digital services, contents and goods and transposing Directives (EU) 2019/771 and (EU) 2019/770.
World Intellectual Property Indicators 2020 or how all roads lead to China (ii): trademarks, industrial designs and creative industry
Post from Garrigues' Intellectual Property blog.
Portuguese Decree-Law no. 59/2021 regulates the applicable regime to the provision and dissemination of telephone lines for consumer contact
Decree-Law no. 59/2021 published on July 14 clarified and densified the rules to which the provision of telephone lines for consumer contact is subject.
Your domain name, your identity: the risks of not protecting it for your brand image
Post from Garrigues' Intellectual Property blog.
Portuguese Law no. 32/2021 fixes the font size of standard contractual clauses
Portuguese Law no. 32/2021, published on May 27, foresees an obligation for standard terms to be written in a font size not inferior to 11 or to 2,5 millimeters and with a line spacing not inferior to 1,15 in order to allow consumers to have…
COVID-19: Changes to the rules on Portuguese advertising commercial practices with price reductions during the State of Emergency
Following Decree No. 3-A/2021 of 14 January which regulates the state of emergency decreed by the Portuguese President and in order to respond to the movement of people that was observed during the first days of the new confinement, the…
COVID-19: Spanish and European Union Intellectual Property Offices announce extension of deadlines
Royal Decree No. 463/2020 declaring a state of alert in Spain to manage the COVID-19 public health crisis was published on March 14, 2020. Among other measures designed to respond to the outbreak and alleviate its consequences, all court and…
3D printing: Doing its part to save the environment
3D printing can have a positive impact on the environment: it reduces manufacturing waste, lowers the carbon footprint and supports the circular economy. The European Commission has been called on to look at creating a legal framework that would…
The CJEU due to rule for the first time on the main rights held by owners of plant varieties
The court must rule on a number of questions referred to the CJEU by the Spanish Supreme Court, in a case in which Garrigues represents Club de Variedades Vegetales Protegidas.