The year of IP-Success: What every business owner shall know According to the official EPO Website “The European Patent Office (EPO) received 188 600 applications in 2021, up 4.5% on the previous year and the highest number to date. The EPO’s Patent Index 2021, published today, shows that patent filings rebounded significantly last year after a […]
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The likelihood of confusion is a term from trade mark law that you may have already heard if you are familiar with the IP-Law world. A trade mark proprietor may bring a number of trademark law claims not only against identical trademarks but also against similar trademarks if there is a likelihood of confusion on
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ECJ Judt. v. 24.03.2022, Case C-433/20 If a private individual uploads a copyright-protected work to a cloud, this person is legally speaking is making a copy – and thus infringing copyright. However, this can be justified by the exception of private copying, according to the ECJ. If a person uploads a copyrighted work to a
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