In an interesting precedent, Tel Aviv District Court Judge Magen Altoubia has ruled that “Crazy Line” – a fashion house catering for the larger woman, can pay Google to allow use of the name of their leading competitor, ”Matim Li” (“Suits Me” in Hebrew) and their abbreviation “ml” as search terms. Read the rest of this entry »
Israel Judge Allows Unregistered Trademarks to be Used as Google Search Terms
August 14, 2006
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Appeal to Register “The History Channel” as an Israel Trademark Rejected
August 14, 2006A&E Networks unsuccessfully petitioned the Israel Registrar of Patents & Trademarks to allow registration of “The History Channel” as a trademark. An Examiner had previously rejected the mark as being descriptive and lacking distinctiveness.
A&E Networks claimed that their extensive use of the mark had invested it with an identity beyond its descriptive nature. Read the rest of this entry »
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Israel Patent Office Refuses Reinstatement of Lapsed Patent
August 14, 2006Israel Patent Number 92848 lapsed in 1996. Ten years later the owners, Chem Air Agricultural Cooperative, attempted to reinstate the patent which relates to crop spraying, claiming that the management of the company, being pilots and farmers, were not familiar with patent law, and that the abandonment was unintentional.
The patent office ruling rejected Read the rest of this entry »
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