The European Union's top court has held that users of online content-sharing platforms do not need to seek explicit permission from rights owners to reproduce copyrighted material if they have already secured rights to make the material public.
The European Union's top court has held that users of online content-sharing platforms do not need to seek explicit permission from rights owners to reproduce copyrighted material if they have already secured rights to make the material public.
A Harvard-affiliated research hospital has failed to secure a European patent for its portable MRI scanner after an appeals panel held that the blueprint goes beyond the contents of the organization's original application.
More than 100,000 requests for unitary protection were sent to European Patent Office since the system launched, with almost two-thirds of smaller businesses viewing it as a cost-effective way to protect their inventions, according to the authority.
Ford has failed to convince European officials to nix a Romanian company's trademark for "Car Sync," as shoppers would be able to distinguish it from the carmaker's earlier signs including "Ford Sync" and "Sync My Ride."
Beauty brand Sol de Janeiro has persuaded European officials to block a retailer from registering the trademark "Sol de Verano" after demonstrating that shoppers might mistake the sign for its own range inspired by Brazil's Rio de Janeiro.
The European Parliament voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to approve changes for geographical indications, in a move that aligns European Union rules with updated international regulations that now allow countries to modify protected names and other information.
