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 had a role in the selection of various background images that… Read More ›
Israel IP
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
Compensation for Copyright and moral Rights Infringement
A professional photographer, Israel Cohen, took a rare photograph of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky at home, participating in a ceremony destroying mobile phones with a hammer. The defendant, Kav Religious Newspapers, is the publisher of various weekly local free newspapers distributed… Read More ›
Reinstatement of IL 153040 and IL 152812
IL 153040 and IL 152812 were abandoned. The Applicant, a Mr. Baruch Cohen, claims that he was in a psychiatric ward and could not deal with the prosecution, and this was the reason for the applications going abandoned. IL 152812… Read More ›
Oposition to IL 189712 to Camtek
Orbotech submitted an Opposition to IL 189712 to Camtek which was subsequently retracted on 4 March 2019. Following this, the Opposition proceedings were closed and the validity of the allowed application was considered by the Deputy Commissioner under Section 34… Read More ›
Dr Kong Footcare
On 12 April 2017, Dr Kong Footcare Ltd (a Singapore Company) submitted Israel trademark application no. 293436 which is a stylized mark for Dr Kong with a footprint. The mark is shown alongside. The mark covers clothing, footwear, head-coverings, soles for… Read More ›
