As a kind of plastic art with practicality and artistry, the Works of Applied Art have both the characteristics of the literary and the industrial design. When the Works of Applied Art is connected with a specific manufacturer and has been used and promoted for a long time, it is more likely to be with the characteristics of identifying the source of goods and services, qualified as the package and decoration of famous commodities […]
Personality rights means a right of person related to his or her personality. They can be protected under right to privacy or as a property of a person. This is important to mostly celebrities because people use a celebrity name or a photograph to advertise their trade and this usage influences their sales. Anyone can misuse a celebrity’s name or a photograph very easily for their trade, therefore it is important for a celebrity […]
With case C-471/14, the Court of Justice of the European Union clarified that the relevant date to be taken into account for the calculation of the term of SPCs is the date of notification of the marketing authorization. Moreover, in Case C-492/16 issued on December 20th, 2017, the Court of Justice of the European Union clarified how SPCs granted taking into account a wrong marketing authorization date and, hence, granted for a wrong term, […]