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Unclear contractual provisions are becoming a growing source of legal battles over trademark applications filed in bad faith. Disputes over intellectual property often arise not only between competitors but also between former business partners, as seen in recent...

Great news for small and medium-sized enterprises based in the European Union! The SME Fund programme Ideas Powered for Business returns in 2025, offering financial support for the protection of intellectual property rights. This year, 18 million EUR has been provided...

December is a time for reflection and summaries, but also for intense efforts to conclude pending cases. We are proud to share our successes in two complex proceedings in which our  Clients reached satisfying settlement agreements in court mediation. Both cases...

In the judgment of the 27th of November 2024 in Case T-509/23, the General Court analysed the similarity between a graphic trade mark depicting a capital letter ‘V’ and the Giorgio Armani graphic trade mark depicting a stylised eagle with outspread wings. On the 29th...

The reprography fee is a fee imposed on entities providing access to devices that enable the reproduction of works under permitted private use in order to compensate for the use of works. Such devices are mainly photocopiers, scanners or cassettes, i.e. devices that...

In the judgment of the 13th of November 2024 in case T-524/23, the General Court dealt with a case concerning the invalidity of a 3D trade mark depicting an inhaler. The mark was applied for on the 16th of July 1999 by the German company Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma...

Recently published study on the legal protection of trade secrets in the context of the data economy (GRO/SME/20/F/206), by the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (European Commission), clearly shows that: while the significance of data sharing has...

By the judgment of October 24, 2024, in case C-227/23, the CJEU ruled that EU law precludes Members States from applying in their national law the material reciprocity test provided for in Article 2(7) of the Berne Convention in relation to a work of applied art for...

By the judgment of October 17 2024 r in Case C 159/23, the CJEU ruled that article 1 (1)-(3) of Directive 2009/24/WE of the European Parliament and of the Council on the legal protection of computer programs should be interpreted as meaning that: the protection...