In Comité Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne v Eden Springs Ltd (CC (TA Distr) 22286-03-11, May 19 2015), the Tel Aviv District Court (Justice Ginat) has had a rare opportunity to consider the unauthorised use of an appellation of origin. The...

About nine years after filing his first patent application, the patent owner filed a divisional application which was granted with a new set of claims. These claims covered within their scope a device published during the period between the filing of...

The Korean Supreme Court decides that new medical use characterized by a dosage regimen or dose is patentable. Given the ever-growing costs of developing new drugs, attention in the pharmaceutical industry is very often focused on finding new...

Each year, the European Patent Office (EPO) releases an Annual Report that highlights key statistics and indicators from the prior year’s patent activity. As the executive arm of the European Patent Organization, the EPO is tasked with providing a uniform procedure for inventors to obtain patent...

Following two years of efforts by the Ministry of Finance to examine opportunities for further encouraging companies to operate in Israel, a committee tasked with proposing changes to the Law for the Encouragement of Capital Investments has recommended a new tax break for companies that transfer...

Styled the IP5, the world’s five largest patent offices – the European Patent Office (EPO), the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the Japan Patent Office (JPO), the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), and the State Intellectual Property Office of the People’s Republic...

In a recent landmark decision, China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) found that patent licensing schemes used by Qualcomm violate China’s Anti-Monopoly Law. Qualcomm was ordered by the NDRC to rectify its patent licensing schemes to ensure compliance with China’s laws and...

The Israel Patent Office has launched a new online database and search engine of registered designs qualified for publication. Until recently, the only option for searching through registered designs in Israel was through the use of a computer...