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Michael Factor is an Israel registered patent attorney and lawyer.
In addition to managing the IP Factor, an opinionated blog covering IP issues from an Israeli perspective, I am a member of the Jurisdiction and Law Committee of the INTA Bulletin and will be writing fortnightly Israel trademark updates for that publication.
Over 2009 and 2010 I wrote a bimonthly column in the World Intellectual Property Review (WIPR), a monthly jurisdiction report in Managing Intellectual Property (MIP), and weekly Israel IP reports for Intellectual Property Management (IAM).
In addition to a law degree, Michael has a PhD in Applied Physics and an M.Eng. in Materials Science and Engineering.
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Designs in Israel – Some Statistics
In 2018, some 1686 design applications were filed in Israel. This is below the peak of 1866 in 2016, but is higher than any other year in the past 5 years. With the changes in place relating to the adoption… Read More ›
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A Frenelum Spreader for the Tongue Tied Design Attorney
This ruling is an appeal to the Deputy Commissioner concerning the registerability of Design number 60851 in class 24-02 which covers medical devices. The application was submitted on 3 September 2017 by Bam Medical ltd and claims priority from US 29/595,949,… Read More ›
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Israel joins Hague Convention for Industrial Designs
For the first 70 years since the establishment of the State of Israel, the registration and protection of designs in Israel was governed by laws inherited from the British Mandate. Some of these were obsolete. For example, only local novelty… Read More ›
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Exams for Wannabee Israel Patent Attorneys
The oral exams for Patent Attorneys will be held on Sunday 8 December 2019 and on Thursday 12 December 2019. The written papers for electronic, computer related and mechanical inventions will be held on Monday 16th December 2019, and the… Read More ›
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Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner…
Usually I choose IP conferences to visit new places. I take my tax off-settable employee wife with me to carry the cases and so on, and whilst I am schmoozing with patent and trademark attorneys, she visits museums, historic sites and also… Read More ›
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Palestine Authority Trademarks
The Trademarks Registrar of the self-styled “State of Palestine” has issued a circular letter stating that the translation of a trademark application must be submitted when the application is filed. The above regulation became effective on 1 July 2019 with… Read More ›
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Nespresso Parody – False Description and Passing Off
This is one of a series of posts concerning parody advertisements. The background is to be found here. Within the family of “charges relating to reputation” that were claimed by the Appellant Nespresso against Espresso Club regarding their parody advertisements,… Read More ›
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Nespresso Parody – Supreme Court Rules on Trademark Infringement
This is the second of a series of articles regarding advertisements by Espresso Club that parody advertisements by Nespresso that feature George Clooney as a presenter. The Appellant, Nespresso, claims that their trademark rights were infringed in a number of… Read More ›
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Diluting Nespresso Coffee by Parody – Background to Israel Supreme Court Ruling
Nespresso has an international advertising campaign featuring George Clooney. A compilation of these may be found here. Apparently the subliminal message is that if one “drinks different”, one will drive luxury cars, become a fabulously wealthy successful actor (who nevertheless needs… Read More ›
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Can a Patent Term Extension be Extended Retroactively?
Appeal 2070/19 GmbH Pharma UCB vs. Commissioner of Patents This is a request for a further hearing of the District Court ruling rejecting an appeal of 29979-1-18 by Judge Jakobi that appealed a ruling by Commissioner Alon of 4 July… Read More ›
