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Posted by: Meirav Shalem in Labanon, Israel on
Oct 06, 2008
The Lebanese government threatens to sue the Israeli government for distributing Falafel (fried chickpeas balls) abroad. The Lebanese claim that the dish called Falafel belongs to their ancient tradition and culture and that Israel sells this product under the same name claiming it to be an Israeli national food. Although the name "Falafel" was never registered by the Lebanese as a trademark, the Lebanese rely on a precedential case in which Denmark, France and Germany filed a prosecution against Greece claiming that Greece cannot hold a monopoly over the Feta Cheese. Greece won the case since it managed to prove that the Feta Cheese belongs to the Greek people and tradition. The court ruled that the greek industry is the only one allowed to use the name "Feta" for this cheese, since
The Trademark Department of Israel had issued a Decision in the case of Colgate Palmolive Company (Delaware Corporation) and its refusal to limit several words of its trademarks applications by a Disclaimer. A disclaimer demand requires the Applicant to claim that the trademark rights given to the Applicant sare limited and only refer to the combined names and marks of the Applicant's application (e.g. receiving trademark of the combination "Lady Stick" rather of each word individually). This refusal has led to a debate relating to two supposedly complimentary clauses in the Trademarks Law: Clause 21 and Clause 47, debating whether Clause 47 contains the described in Clause 21. Clause 21 specifies the Patent and Trademark Office's right to demand that the Applicant adds a disclaimer
Posted by: Miriam Hackmey in well-known marks, Well Known Marks, Trademarks, trademark, Trade Marks, Lawsuits, law, Israel, famous marks, Decision on
Jul 02, 2008
"Local" VERSACE registrations removed from Israeli Trade Mark Register
In a recent decision dated 29 June 2008, the Israeli Intellectual Property Adjudicator ordered the removal from the register of five registrations in respect of the trade mark Versace in various forms including Hebrew versions of the mark. The registrations were almost 20 years old.
The Israeli proprietor of the removed registrations, Versace 83 Ltd. owned by the Zadik Fur Bros., obtained the registrations at the time after the well known Italian fashion house Gianni Versace S.p.A. withdrew its oppositions. Since 2000, following the expansion of the Israeli "VERSACE" chain and the opening of many branches in prime locations, Gianni Versace S.p.A. took various actions in order to stop the commercial use of the mark and
In a recent correspondence, the IL PTO (Israeli Patent and Trademark Office) has made some clarifications regarding its approach to the registration of three-dimensional trademarks in Israel. This clarification has been made in light of a ruling of the Israeli Supreme Court in the case of August Strock KG vs. Alpha Intuit (referred to herein as AS vs. AI). In this case, AS has prosecuted AI for infringing AS's trademark, which was a graphical image of AS's product (a candy). AI sold and distributed products that had the same shape and design as the product's graphical image (photo) protected by a trademark (rather than by an industrial design). The Supreme Court has acknowledged that the Legislation does allow registration of three-dimensional trademarks but it this case, only the
Posted by: ifat ara in Israel on
Apr 29, 2008
In an Israeli civil wrong lawsuit an Internet forum operator (the defendant) had been accused of libel and was obliged to pay a reimbursement of 100,000 NIS (~29,000$) to the plaintiff, a municipal veterinarian. According to the Israeli Magistrates Court, the Internet forum owner injured the reputation and status of the plaintiff in the community by giving stage to different offensive defamations which ascribed the plaintiff deeds of corruptions and bride. The court held that the defendant is responsible in virtue of its capacity as an Internet forum operator and accused her of being negligent for allowing the defaming publications and not removing them from its website. In its decision the court took in to consideration the scope of those injuring publications as well as the long period
Reckitt & Colman (referred to hereinafter as "the applicants") tried to register a trademark that goes by the Hebrew name of " ערכת גילוח ללא סכין" which is translated as "A bladeless shaving kit". The applicants already own another trademark named "Bladeless Razor" registered abroad. The Patents and Trademarks Commissioner (referred to hereinafter as "the Commissioner") rejected their request claiming the trademark is "non-distinctive". In response, the applicants have carried out a survey and showed that many customers use their product; a wide publicity of their product under the Hebrew name of "Bladeless Shaving Kit" in Israel proving
The U.S. District Court in Delaware rejected Israeli generic drug company Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. request to sell a generic version of Procter & Gamble's drug Actonel . The ruling is part of a patent infringement lawsuit filed against Teva in 2004. Teva's claimed that Procter & Gamble's patent for the drug was not valid due to the obviousness of the invention. Procter & Gamble's patent for risedronate (US5583122), the active ingredient in Actonel ,will remain valid until 2013. Actonel was approved in 2000 by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the prevention and treatment
Posted by: Zeev Fisher in politics, law, Israel on
Feb 04, 2008
This post has nothing to do with IP. It has to do a little bit with innovation. The Israel Parliament ("the knesset") held a special gathering addressing the recently published "Vinograd committee" report. This report found Prime Minister Olmert's conduct during the "Second Lebanon War" one of the reasons for what the committee defined as a "failure to overcome a small guerilla organization". After Prime Minister Olmert, who is considered a true political surviver (not surprisingly) refused to resign after the report was published, the head of opposition, Bibi Netanyahu, former Israeli prime minister, discribed, in a rather innovative matter, Olmert's speech as "a speech of a lawyer, not
Posted by: ifat ara in Israel on
Jan 30, 2008
An interresting issue came up recently when the Israeli trademark commissioner ruled to cancel a trademark due to non use, despite arguments by the trademark holder arguing that the special circumstances in trade rule shall apply. On January 21, 2008 the Israeli patent commissioner (hereinafter: the commissioner) ruled in favor of a company named "VAPUM LTD." and cancelled the trademark:" ZIP" ( T.M. number 101663, hereinafter: "the trademark") under clause 41 to the trademarks ordinance 1974 (hereinafter: "the ordinance"). The trademark was registered under class 25 which includes: Clothing, footwear and head covers and excluding Ti - shirts, Sport shirts, Sweat shirts Vests and belts with buckles. Clause 41(A) to the ordinance determines that one can submit a request for cancellation of a registered trademark arguing there was no "Bona Fide" (good faith) intent to use a specific trademark and that in fact there was no "Bona Fide"
The Israeli patent commissioner has rejected (January 14) an opposition to Israeli patent application 138347 titled "Laser Marking on Diamonds" ending 4 years of opposition proceeding. Sarin Technologies, the Applicant and OGI, who filed the opposition, are both active in the field of diamond planning, processing and grading technologies. Sarin's Application was directed
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