Have you defined all your databases? Appointed a data protection officer? Do you know what obligations apply to your databases? On May 8, 2018 the new Privacy Protection (Information Security) Regulations enacted in 2017 will come into force. These...
Israel’s Supreme Court upheld that oral course lectures not documented by the lecturer are copyrightable, but allowed publisher’s defense that he was unaware of the existence of such copyrights. The Supreme Court recently deliberated on the...
The Israeli Supreme Court recently issued an important and precedential decision recognizing, for the first time, the enforceability of Chinese court decisions in Israel. In order to execute in Israel and collect monies due in accordance with a...
The new Israel Design Law[1] will come into force on August 7, 2018. As of that date, all registered designs filed according to current Designs Ordinance will be published, including registered designs that according to the ordinance were supposed to...
Tel Aviv District Court dismissed Meerovich’s trademark infringement claim against Habitat for HABITAT mark Found that Meerovich had filed and used its HABITAT registrations in bad faith in order to benefit from the international goodwill attached...
On 27 November 2017 the Tel Aviv District Court[1] handed down a ruling denying a petition for an interlocutory injunction order which would have prevented the respondents in the case from using the name Voice of Hope as regards a particular radio...
In a rather unique case the Israel Supreme Court issued an interlocutory injunction prohibiting the company Hazera from requesting access to watermelon seeds of the company Origene Seeds, deposited for the purpose of patent procedure under the...
In September 2017 the Jerusalem District Court held that the Israel Defense Force (IDF) had no obligation to designate the name of a soldier photographer in publications including photographs taken during a soldier’s military service and that...
