This decision related to a request to cancel a trademark registered in Israel by a third party, allegedly with bad faith. The case is complicated by the fact that parties in question live in the Palestinian Authority and have registered… Read More ›
Israel IP
Employee Appeals Invention Compensation Committee Ruling to Israel Supreme Court
When ruling as the High Court of Justice – Bagatz, Israel’s Supreme Court rules on the legality of decisions of State authorities: government decisions, those of local authorities and other bodies and persons performing public functions under the law, and… Read More ›
Class Action Against Rami Levy for Passing Off and Deceiving the Public
Rami Levy is a leading supermarket chain. They produce a wide range of own-name products that are cheaper than the brand leaders and which they claim are of similar quality and taste. In the past, we’ve reported extensively on actions… Read More ›
10 Million Shequel Claim for at Risk Launch of Generic Viagra Thrown Out
The original patent for Viagra (Israel patent IL 98482) had very broad and sweeping claims that covered billions of molecules, of which only a small number of which cause blood vessel dilation that allows treatment of erectile dysfunction; the best… Read More ›
Appellation of Origin, BDS and Labeling
The Judean Regional Council has successfully applied for and obtained an Appellation of Origin for wines grown in the region under the name Yehuda (– Judea). In a separate event that is perhaps related, the Psagot Winery which is situated… Read More ›
ACTIVE SPORT Not Considered Distinctive
Unilever PLC has applied for an Israel trademark for the phrase ACTIVE SPORT for Soaps; perfumery, essential oils, cosmetics; colognes, eau de toilette, perfume body sprays; oils, creams and lotions for the skin; talcum powder; preparations for the bath and… Read More ›
Copyright Issues in Photomontage
This ruling looks at whether Gross, the printer of a montage poster by Tratkover entitled “The Declaration”, can be considered as having copyright in the pictures if he had a role in the selection of various background images that appear in… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
