Background The Anne Frank Fund is the owner of copyright in The Diary of Anne Frank. Since The Diary was written in the early 1940s, the relevant copyright has now expired in many EU Member States. Importantly, the relevant copyright has expired in Belgium, but not in...
Background The applicant Kct GmbH & Co. KG filed an application for a motion mark depicting the opening and closing of a window, as depicted below. The EUIPO rejected the application for lack of distinctiveness, and the Board of Appeal upheld that decision,...
Background LEGO A/S (‘LEGO’) owns the following registered Community designs (‘RCD’) for ‘building blocks from a toy building set’ (Locarno class 21.01): – RCD no. 001950981-0001 – RCD no. 002137190-0002 The defendant, Pozitív Energiaforrás Kft....
Background The present decision stems from an appeal by Safestand against an order of the High Court declaring three of its UK registered designs (90002293490001 (“RRD 0001”), 90003121450004 (“RRD 0004”) and 90003121450005 (“RRD 0005”) (collectively, “the...
The original AI image was modified by Kent Keirsey, CEO of Invoke AI and also the owner of the copyright registration in question. The image was modified using a technique called inpainting. The application to register “A Single Piece of American Cheese” was initially...
Background The UK’s decision to leave the EU has had a significant impact on both the UK and the EU, ranging from disputes over our future trading relationship to subsidies for farmers. However, the effect of Brexit on IP legislation is talked about much less often....
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