The examiner refused to accept the mark CHEF LINE for goods and services in Classes 7, 11 and 35 on the ground that it was descriptive The adjudicator upheld the examiner’s finding that CHEF LINE was devoid of inherent distinctiveness However, the...
In a landmark ruling in the matter of MCA 32365-05-20 Intra‑Cellular Therapies, Inc. v. The Patents Authority ,the Tel Aviv District Court reversed a decision of the Patents Registrar, who refused to grant a patent on an invention directed to a...
After years of delays, Europe’s Unified Patent Court and Unitary Patent system will be implemented in about a year from now. The Unified Patent Court and Unitary Patent system represents the most important change ever seen in the European patent...
On August 29th 2021, the Israel Ministry of Justice published an exposure bill proposing to introduce into Israel patent law, an exemption from infringement of a PTE Order, along the lines of the EU so called manufacturing waiver, albeit...
The Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) recently published new calls for proposals to participate in new programs aimed at providing support in different fields[1]. One call invites companies and manufacturers in the process of transitioning over to...
The story of entrepreneur Ben Cohen-Gazit is an inspirational one. He came up with a great idea from a personal need, realized it had great potential and jumped at the opportunity. A lesson in entrepreneurship started from that moment on. It all started four years ago with a family trip from Tel...
The Israeli government reacts to the COVID-19 pandemic by issuing two State of Emergency Regulations, imposing sweeping digital surveillance; the Supreme Court put them on halt. Background According to the WHO’s data, as at March 21, COVID-19...
Tech giants, including Apple and Microsoft, have struggled in having to deal with long and costly legal battles they are dragged into by non-practicing entities (NPEs), of the referred to as patent trolls, which are persons or companies that often...