On May 2, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) released its World Intellectual Property Report 2024: A guide for policymakers. The document is released every two years and this time it was entitled...
read +Last month, the 6th Chamber of Public Law of the Rio de Janeiro Court of Justice handed down a ruling in a legal dispute between two famous jewelry stores involving Victorian star-shaped jewelry. Unanimously, the court held that...
read +At the end of April (26), the Brazilian National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) published its Resolution No. 15/2024, which approved the...
read +Last Thursday, May 9, the Dannemann Siemsen Institute (IDS) welcomed a group of students from the Visual Communication and Design course at the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) for a lecture on...
read +Last Tuesday (7), the Dannemann Siemsen Institute (IDS) held another IDS Agenda, this time discussing relevant issues on proving the use of trademarks. The event was presented in English and took AIPPI Resolution "Proving trademark use" as a starting point to...
read +Recently, in the United States, the city of San Francisco sued its neighboring city, Oakland, in the District Court for the Northern District of California, arguing that the initiative to rename its airport to “San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport” violates the...
read +In two recent decisions, both the Third Chamber of the General Court and the Second Board of Appeals of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) have ruled that, in the field of trade marks, the inversion of words in the name, i.e. when...
read +Last Thursday (25), the Dannemann Siemsen Institute (IDS) organized another IDS Agenda, this time in celebration of World Intellectual Property Day and with the theme ‘Second medical use patents: enforcement and skinny labelling’.
read +In a recent ruling, the 3rd Chamber of Private Law of the São Paulo Court of Justice (TJSP) decided, by a majority, that test questions alone cannot be the object of copyright protection. The case involved...
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