Category: Publication

With market trends turbo-charged by social media in particular, the cosmetics industry moves ever faster. This means that staying at least one step ahead of competitors has never been more critical for success – a factor that impacts how cosmetics com ...

The fashion industry is undeniably a constantly growing market that stands out for its peculiarities in terms of its fast-paced operation mechanisms, ephemeral trends and collections and its unique business structure. All these phenomena lead to a nee ...

Digital is not only disrupting products and services. It is also disrupting the overall idea that intellectual property management shall be centralized and tightly governed by its owner or be subjected to the “Tragedy of the common” as stated by Garre ...

Does the patent really encourage innovation? This question, that has haunted economists for decades, is important because encouraging innovation is one of the main modern justifications for patents. In fact, the answer to this question is far from bin ...

In addition to the foreign applicants who have been constantly investing in China’s patent assets, recent years have also witnessed some big Chinese software companies applying for a large number of invention patents containing algorithms or business ...

Imagine that you do business in a foreign country and your business partner or commercial agent in this country has registered your trademark in his name and is not willing to transfer it to you. Or imagine that you have filed an international applica ...

Like most creative works, it is an established principle that copyright protection is extended to photographs. The water becomes murkier when the photographs in question are of public figures because, in addition to copyright over the artistry of phot ...

IP Litigators Face Several Key Questions Litigating an Intellectual Property dispute raises important questions: When does an insurer have to pay for a defense? Who should notify insurers and when – and which insurers? What if the insurers all s ...

The new Chinese patent law came into effect on June 1, 2021. This amendment involves many aspects, such as introduction of partial design, service invention, distribution of patent monetization, abuse of patent rights, patent term extension, voluntary ...

Back in 2001, the OECD defined biotechnology as “the application of science and technology to living organisms as well as parts, products and models thereof, to alter living or non-living materials for the production of knowledge, goods and services”. ...