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ETHIOPIA in the International Trademark System

2025-07-16T09:24:56+00:0016 July 2025|

Ethiopia joins the Paris Convention and the Madrid Protocol on International Trademarks effective August 15, 2025. The country, which previously had nearly zero IP protection, will now be subject to designation for the most important [...]

For Lady Gaga there is a Bad Romance

2025-06-13T16:17:28+00:0013 June 2025|

Lady Gaga launched the new Album Mayhem in March 2025, promoting it with a tour and the sale of clothing bearing this name. This was not appreciated by Lost International LLC, an American company that [...]

Historical Trademark for abroad

2025-04-29T08:09:27+00:0029 April 2025|

A new decree has launched the version dedicated to the foreign use of the “Historical Trademark of National Interest” with a specific logo "Italian Historical Trademark" which, like its twin in Italian, can be used [...]

Italian Historical Trademark

2025-03-13T13:14:50+00:0013 March 2025|

The Ministry of Industry introduced, on the initiative of the Association of Historical Trademarks of Italy, the "foreign" version of the Historical Trademark. In short, the owners of trademarks included in the  special Register of [...]

Strengthening Europe’s innovation ecosystem

2025-01-21T09:11:32+00:0021 January 2025|

A recent study, published in January 2025 by the European Patent Office (EPO) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), analyses the relationship between intellectual property rights (IPRs) and firm performance in the European [...]

New Risk for Trademarks in Canada

2025-01-07T08:48:34+00:007 January 2025|

A pilot project of the Canadian Trademark Office (CIPO) provides that the Office itself will randomly select certain registrations on a monthly basis to initiate a revocation proceeding for non-use (“Sec. 45”). If the owner [...]

New WIPO Design Law Treaty

2024-12-19T15:31:12+00:0019 December 2024|

On November 22, 2024, a WIPO Diplomatic Conference of Member States adopted a new Treaty referred to as “Riyadh Design Law Treaty”. The Treaty aims to make international design procedures more predictable, so that it [...]

EU Design Reform is forthcoming

2024-12-19T15:28:14+00:0019 December 2024|

A legislative revision of EU Designs entered into force on December 8, 2024; EU Member States will have 36 months to transpose it into their national law. This legislative revision includes a recast Directive on [...]