Patentlyapple, the site that celebrates Apple’s creative spirit, has recently published news about the Canadian Trademarks Office has granting Apple Inc. the apple trademark. However it’s not the bitten apple that appears on laptops but rather the one that appeared for the first time on Abbey Road’s vinyl. The jubilant announcement has been given as […]
Advance Magazine Publishers Inc. New York and Les Publications Condé Nast SA Paris which publish the famous magazine “Vogue” have won in Switzerland against a local company which manufactured wristwatches branded “Vogue”. The Supreme Court has therefore ordained that, although the wristwatches being produced were completely different products from a magazine, the fame of the […]
By judgement n. 22225 on January 19th 2012 the Sezioni Unite, which constitute the most authoritative section of the italian Court of Cassation, have pronounced the rule of law, according to which «there cannot be criminal liability for who buys things which regulations have been violated, concerning the origin of the products and industrial property». […]
The Court of Justice has recently pronounced (21.06.2012 – C-5/11) on a rather peculiar case, that of Titus Alexander Jochen Donner, a german citizen who had the idea of purchasing industrial design works in Italy, which were not copyrighted when the events occurred, and subsequently sold them in Germany, where they were actually copyrighted. As […]
April 26th is World Intellectual Property Day, promoted by WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization. The theme...
