In this issue:
- No limitation period for actions to invalidate a trademark
- New regulations on the granting of compulsory licences
- EUIPO rules on the distinctiveness of a position mark
- Clarifications on the application of the criterion of inventive step in patent matters
- Protection of food packaging by copyright
- Ownership of copyright is a condition for the admissibility of a claim for infringement
- Clarifications on the registration of a motion mark
- New system for the protection of protected geographical indications
- Clarifications on the conditions for protection of a Community design
- Well-known trade mark and free-riding
- Clarification of the evidential requirements to oppose a request for cancellation
- Possibility of invoking parasitism for the first time on appeal
- Generative AI: a legal battle between US publishers and Google
- Whistleblowers and public defamation
- Retweets and parasitism
- Defamation and unfair competition
- Opinion of the Competition Authority
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