IP-Fälle und Artikel

The General Court has found OPENAI descriptive and dismissed OpenAI’s challenge to the EUIPO; a reminder that fame and distinctiveness are not the same thing.

In ICAP Laundry Care SL v Persan SA, an invalidity action was brought against a UK registered design for a detergent capsule. The rightsholder filed a witness statement presented as an expert report to try and prove the design was…

Hasbro, owner of the Peppa Pig franchise, was recently successful in a summary judgment for copyright infringement against the Vietnamese producers of Wolfoo, an animated children’s YouTube series.

AI has become an integral part of everyday life, but its growing role raises new legal questions, including in trade mark and unfair competition law. The Regional Court of Berlin II recently addressed whether AI-generated overviews constitute trade mark use.

The European Commission has fined AliExpress €550 million for breaching the Digital Services Act (DSA), the largest penalty issued under the regulation to date. The e-commerce platform failed to properly police illegal, unsafe and counterfeit goods.

Two recent Unified Patent Court (UPC) cases may have some implications for future added matter issues heard before the UPC, and in particular those concerning alleged intermediate generalisation. The decisions in both cases are also noteworthy when compared with EPO…

This article looks at how additive manufacturing could support future space missions, from on-demand repairs and reduced launch mass to the construction of larger structures beyond Earth. It also considers the technical challenges of manufacturing in microgravity and, importantly, what…

By 2050, the world will need to produce roughly 70% more food than it did in 2009, on a planet with less spare land, less predictable weather, and less patience for the environmental cost of getting there. Consumer demand is…

The Unified Patent Court (UPC) Court of Appeal upheld The Hague Local Division’s decision to award a preliminary injunction preventing the Chinese manufacturer Sinocare, and its European distribution partner Menarini Diagnostics, from selling its continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) device “GlucoMen…

Since G1/24 on claim interpretation was issued, there has been significant debate about what “consulting the description and drawings” may actually mean for claim interpretation. This debate has now widened, with a referral to the European Patent Office (EPO) Enlarged…

The Rules of Procedure of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) allow for judges of the court to use their discretion in granting extensions for almost all time periods. Requests for extensions may often not be granted by the UPC, and…