by manuel.roche | Jan 31, 2019 | All, Copyright, Designs, Internet, Trademarks
In our time of digital communication, the pictograms, these basic symbols conveying universally recognized and fully understood information, also intend to be used as a badge of origin. But can these simple and meaningful signs be perceived as identifying the...
by manuel.roche | Nov 30, 2018 | All, Copyright, Designs
That’s right! This is France and France is known worldwide (at least we French people like to think so) for its contributions to the arts, its intellectual creations, its original productions. Yet we are talking about copyright protection claimed over a portal, a...
by manuel.roche | Nov 21, 2018 | All, Copyright
The EU law precludes (i) the taste of a food product from being protected by copyright and (ii) national legislation from being interpreted in such a way that it grants copyright protection to such a taste. The judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union...
by manuel.roche | Oct 12, 2018 | All, Copyright, Designs, Internet, Patents, Trademarks
This article is the transcription of a presentation by Manuel ROCHE, Industrial property attorney and President of the International Relations Committee of the CNCPI (the French Patent and Trademark Attorneys Institute), during the international symposium “Paris,...
by manuel.roche | Oct 1, 2018 | All, Trademarks
The Apple Watch is not branded as “iWatch”, although it would put it in line with its pre-existing products/services bearing the well-known ‘i’-prefix, such as iPhone, iPod, iPad, iMac or iCloud. This is mostly due to the difficulties of having the...
