By Yoav Navon Innovation and entrepreneurship involve struggles to protect your intellectual property rights. According to studies, intellectual property can constitute up to 70% of the value of a company. Therefore, infringement or theft of intellectual property may cause irreversible damage to a...
A newly bred plant variety is a proprietary asset in every respect, and it is important that the new variety be protected under Plant Breeders’ Rights Law. A new technology developed during a breeding process and use of breeding products can...
Is verbally entering into a franchise agreement sufficient? What rights does such franchise agreement afford? Does the franchisee have the right to use the franchisor’s brand? These are some of the questions the Central District Court had to...
A patent on a drug allows a drug company to maintain a, sometimes very, wide profit margin on a drug by force of the monopoly granted by the patent. The patent’s expiry allows competitors to enter the market with generic substitutes while the price...
Be sure that careful planning is given before deciding on the right venue for hearing a suit brought in intellectual property matters. The issue was once again raised as to a court’s subject-matter jurisdiction to hear a suit concerning...
Israeli courts periodically hear disputes arising from a business owner’s desire to curb its competition. Protection from unfair competition is possible, inter alia, when it aims to protect a business’s intellectual property assets such as a...
Israel ascribes much importance to the innovation and creation of intellectual property assets intended to remain within Israel’s borders, advance its industry and create jobs and livelihoods for the country’s citizens. Encouraging research and...
Trademark Infringement, Dilution, and Unfair Competition Trademark law has developed as a subdivision of the law of unfair competition. See, e.g., Oliver R.Mitchell, “Unfair Competition,” 10 Harvard L. Rev.275 (1896). Like other unfair...
