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 ›
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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 ›
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 ›
Trade-Marking a Gold Stripe
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 ›
Hydration Backpacks Again
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 ›
Mutually Assured Trademark Destruction
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 ›
Pending Israel Copyright Amendment to Address Internet Piracy of Audio Visual Works
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 ›
Patent Office Closures – Pesach 2018
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 ›
CORRECTION Re – Third International Conference on the Economics of Innovation
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 ›
A ballsy trademark ruling
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 ›
