The Court of Justice of the European Union has been asked to rule on a preliminary question submitted by the Budapest Court, which sees, on one side, Like Company, publisher of Hungarian online newspapers, and on the other side, Google Ireland Limited, as provider of GenAI services. The case: Like Company vs. Google Like Company […]
The Extended Protection of PDOs: the PriSecco vs Prosecco Case
The General Court of the European Union recently ruled on 24 September 2025 (case T-406/24), establishing the prohibition of “evocation” of a protected designation of origin (PDO) even when the contested sign refers to products that are formally different, if there is a strong visual and phonetic similarity and a commercial proximity such as to […]
Patents and the Global Innovation Index 2025
The Global Innovation Index (GII) 2025 by WIPO assesses the innovation capacity of 139 countries using around 80 indicators, including patent applications, which are considered a key signal of an economy’s technological strength. Switzerland tops the ranking, followed by Sweden, the United States, South Korea, and Singapore. For the first time, China enters the Top […]
Ferrari: the TESTAROSSA trademark is saved
The European Union General Court, in its judgment in joined cases T-1103/23 and T-1104/23, annulled the decisions of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) that had declared the revocation of the verbal trademark TESTAROSSA of Ferrari S.p.A. The case The well-known car manufacturer had been declared to have lost its rights to the trademark […]