A new decision relating to employees’ entitlement to remuneration for service inventions was handed down recently by the Compensations and Royalties Committee, making a positive turn toward innovation-oriented companies as employers Following our...
Amendments to the Design Regulations came into effect on July 1, 20141. These amendments include several noteworthy changes, which reflect the Israel Ministry of Justice and Patent Office initiatives to update the legal regime relating to designs....
On May 8, 2014, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit unanimously ruled that Dolly the cloned sheep (and clones in general) are unpatentable subject matter and opened a possibility of patenting clones that have “markedly...
On February 13, 2013 the OHIM Third Board of Appeal issued a decision1 in which the position of the Examining Division, that a living plant or its fruit cannot be registered as a design, was affirmed. In particular, the Examining Division and the...
On April 2014, the Israeli Ministry of Health (“MoH”) issued a new work procedure, no. 1271, which provides for more structured and detailed policy and procedures for the registration and use of bio-similar pharmaceuticals in Israel (“the...
