Grant Of Multimedia Mark By UKIPO

The United Kingdom Intellectual property Office (UKIPO), recently granted a multimedia mark to Japan’s technology giant Toshiba. With this grant, Toshiba has become the first enterprise ever to have been granted a multimedia mark by the UKIPO. The trademark shows several multi-coloured polygons that zoom out representing an Origami and disappearing.

Interestingly, this grant also corresponded with the British IP day which is also celebrated on the 26th of June. The grant of first-ever multimedia trademark is […]

By | July 25th, 2019 ||

Adidas Loses It’s Battle For The 3 Stripes

The case dates back to 2014 when, the famous German producer of sports goods, in order to extend the protection scope of its well know and already registered trademark with the sign of the three inclined strips, successfully registers the figurative trademark alongside the European Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), composed by three equal strips and described in the application as three parallel equidistant stripes of identical width, applied on the product in any direction, on clothing, hats and […]

By | July 17th, 2019 ||

The plausibility threshold of patent specification remains low in Australia

The requirement that a patent specification sufficiently enables the subject matter of the claims is particularly relevant to pharmaceutical inventions and can be a hurdle for innovators even if a claimed invention is deemed novel and inventive. In the absence of any prior art, the claimed invention can fail the enablement requirement if it is not plausible at the date of filing that the invention would work across the full scope of the claims […]

By | July 3rd, 2019 ||