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International Trademarks – Samoa, a new member of the Madrid Protocol

Samoa’s membership confirms that the Madrid System and its protocol are major assets for the international protection of the trademarks, offering a convenient and economic solution for trademark owners around the world. The Madrid Protocol comes to in Samoa on March 4th, 2019 The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) announced

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A certificate to protect recipes and culinary creations

To the delight of our taste buds, flavors and gourmet creations are part of our daily lives, but from a legal perspective, the situation is more delicate and the flavor more bitter. Indeed, there is a consensus on the need to protect culinary creations but intellectual property law currently offers

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Canada: Accession to the Madrid System

Since March 17, 2019, Canada has officially become a member of the Madrid Protocol, the Nice Agreement and the Singapore Treaty. These treaties will be applicable in Canada from 17 June 2019. Following a long process of reform, Canada’s adoption of these texts was highly expected and profoundly amended the

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Conflict between trademark and plant variety

In the decision of June 18, 2019, the General Court of Justice of the European Union applied Article 7, paragraph 1, m) of Regulation No. 2017/1001, which prohibits the registration of trademarks that consist of “an earlier plant variety denomination registered in accordance with Union legislation” or “or reproduce in

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A look back at the important digitization figures worldwide in 2018

Digitization has become the center of conversations: out of 7.6 billion people, more than half go on the Internet. How does this phenomenon affect companies? Internet access has become increasingly easy,thanks to new connection means (smartphones, tablets, computers, etc.). Thus, more than 4 billion people have access to the Internet.

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