Gold is often considered as indicative of quality. Tnuva the Cooperative for Marketing Agricultural Produce in Israel applied for Israel Trademark 271714 for a Gold color, and 271715 for a stripe in the same gold color. The Color is identified… Read More ›
This case relates to an OEM for a hydration backpack that Shoresh (Source Vagabond) claims was planning on manufacturing anyway, and a potential customer who represents Strider, a company making children’s bikes, who negotiated with them to supply such a… Read More ›
This case deals with a couple of competing Israeli companies that make aluminum profiles for windows and doors for business and domestic premises that filed cancellation actions against each other’s trademarks. Here, a word of explanation is in order. The… Read More ›
Oh, better far to live and die Under the brave black flag I fly, Than play a sanctimonious part, With a pirate head and a pirate heart. Away to the cheating world go you, Where pirates all are well-to-do; But… Read More ›
The Festival of Pesach celebrates Human Freedom and the birth of the Jewish people. The Israel Patent Office will be closed from Friday 30 March 2018, and all deadlines falling in the period that the patent office is closed, are suspended until… Read More ›
I try to be factually accurate and helpful to my readership. However, occasionally mistakes happen. A couple of days ago I posted about the Third International Conference on the Economics of Innovation to be held in Israel under the auspices of the… Read More ›
KGaA & Henkel AG filed a series of Israel trademark applications (Nos. 258658, 258797, 258798 and 259500 as shown alongside. The marks cover Bleaching preparations and other substances for laundry use, rinsing agents for laundry and tableware, stain removing preparations;… Read More ›
Moshe Lavi owns Israel Patent No. 157035 titled “MODULAR SUPPORT BRACKET” which describes a support bracket for an air-conditioner unit. He’s tried to enforce it in the past against Zach Oz Airconditioners LTD, and the parties came to an out-of-court… Read More ›
Israel is a member of the Lisbon Convention for the Appellation of Origin. This is an international convention beloved of the French and frowned upon by the common law countries. Essentially food and drink associated with certain places is entitled to wider… Read More ›
Background Patentability requires that a patent is novel, inventive and useful at the priority date, which is the effective filing date. The Novelty requirement is absolute, but there are three exceptions given in Section 6 of the Israel Patent Law… Read More ›
