7/9/2025 2:33:07 PM Never again clueless: Understanding the title right for a work of art under German law By Rick Wendler When we think about intellectual property, many people immediately picture trade marks for goods or services and patents for inventions....
5/7/2025 8:00:01 AM The relevance of unregistered trade marks and the requirements of prior use: the Italian Courts reaffirm the basic principles By Pietro Dettori In a recent decision involving anonymised parties, the Court of Appeal of L’Aquila dealt with unregistered trade marks and recalled the...
6/6/2024 11:13:00 AM Use It or Lose It – Lessons from Seven Network v 7-Eleven Inc By Rebecca Currey Meggie Zhang A challenge by 7-Eleven has seen Seven lose its Australian registered trade mark for “7NOW” for the vast majority of goods and services...
2/27/2024 12:08:00 PM A Bone to Pick with Distinctiveness of Trade Marks By Lynne Lewis Sanya Bhatnagar Is the mark “Melbourne Bone and Joint Clinic” (the MBJC Mark) for medical and orthopaedic surgery type services in classes 35 and 44...
6/19/2023 11:34:00 AM Challenges in protecting and enforcing Intellectual Property in the African continent By Daniel Anti A previous article looked at the growing importance of intellectual property (IP) in Africa (see here). In this article we consider some...