The period of gestation for a human being is 9 months. That for an elephant 2 years. For the UPC how long? Not so easy to say. The first big formal effort of creating was the Community Patent Convention of 1975 – a woeful system (rejected by industry twice, at the time and later in...
After a turbulent procedure before the EUIPO and then before the Community court, the Court of the European Union annulled on 24 October the European Union trademark of Rubik’s Brand for the famous Rubik’s Cube (1). The latter’s competitor, Simba Toys GmbH, had requested the cancellation of the said three-dimensional mark as early as 2006,...
Since its creation in March 2018, the Institut de Boufflers has made the statute of limitations for actions for cancellation of national industrial property titles one of its main concerns. As early as March 2018, the Institute took the initiative of organising a conference on the subject; the contributions of this conference were then...
The repair clause for visible spare parts that we already know in European design Law [1] is about to be introduced in French law through an amendment[ [2] (quite cavalier) inserted in the bill on mobility [3]. In its last state [4], the text plans to establish a new double exception to the design right...
A photomontage published in the cover of a well known magazine called « Le Point », reproduced an Alain Aslan’s sculpture of a bust of Marianne, a sculpture that depicts the figurhead of the Republic as of Brigitte Bardot, drowning in the seas, under the the heading “wreckers” and the subheading “Corporatists, untouchables, reform killers, lepéno-cégétistes*…. (…)...
In France, the first law that protects inventions is from January 7, 1791. It follows a report of our dear knight Stanislas de Boufflers dated December 30, 1790 entitled “Report on incentives and privileges to be granted to inventors of machines and industrial discoveries ” (Parliamentary Archives, 1st Series, XXI, pp. 721-732 [December 30, 1790])....
The proposed law on the protection of recipes and culinary creations recorded in the National Assembly on April 30, 2019 (No. 1890) will not fail to surprise all those interested in intellectual property, because they are well aware that the judgment of the Court of Justice of November 13, 2018, closed the path of copyright...
