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Lady Gaga (through Ate My Heart Inc) owns several EU trade marks for the name for a multitude of goods and services. The services that mattered in this case are "entertainment" in class 41 contained in several of these word marks.

InnovFest unBound 2016 was a show of strength for start-up businesses in the media and digital healthcare industries. It is the flagship event in the weeklong Smart Nation Innovations event series that seeks to throw a spotlight on Asia's culture of innovation, highlight new technologies and provide a platform for forging new business relationships.

As explained in previous briefings, the New Argentine Civil and Commercial Code, in effect as of August 1 2015, includes, when addressing different issues, regulations referred to intellectual property. That is the case of regulations that govern agreements and among those agreements is the concession agreement.

Copyright offers a potentially powerful tool for addressing piracy in China of logo marks and stylised word marks in the context of oppositions and invalidations. The protection offered applies regardless of the goods or services covered by the pirated mark.

Recently, the Korean Supreme Court made a key decision regarding how to read the prior art when making an inventive step determination (2013 Hu 2873 and 2880 (consolidated), January 14 2016).

In Taiwan, a design must be "original" to be patentable. Since a design that simulates a known object is not original as required by the Patent Law, a "test for originality" will be applied in determining the patentability of a design over a piece of prior art. According to the Examination Guidelines published by Taiwan's IP Office, to determine whether two designs are similar, the designs shall be viewed from the naked eyes of ordinary consumers without the aid of any instrument. Moreover, as a design patent in Taiwan protects only the visually appreciable appearance of an article of manufacture, the mechanical function and construction of the article, as well as the operation processes involved in the use of the article are all excluded from design patent protection.

Karim Kadjar, an actor and descendant of the Iranian Kadjar dynasty which reigned over Iran from 1786 to 1925, did not appreciate the adoption by the French company Renault of the name Kadjar as a trade mark and keyword on internet search engines for designating its new crossover utility vehicle.

July saw two orders from two courts in the country, issuing different orders on the same issue of granting John Doe orders. John Doe orders refer to a court granting injunctions on unknown and unlisted defendants. The decisions appear to pose different thresholds for John Doe orders.

In its "Filmscanner" judgment, the Bundesgerichtshof (BGH) deals with the question whether parties to a research and development cooperation owe a warranty obligation with regard to a shortcoming in the technical concept which prevents completion of the development. Moreover, the court deals with the treatment of such a conceptual shortcoming in case of divestment of the contractual legal position to a third party, where the decisive question is whether the third party can rescind the purchase agreement due to the failure of the development project resulting from the deficiency of the technical concept.

On January 31, 2014, a Mexican applicant, Grupo Bimbo, filed an EUTM application for the three-dimensional mark shown.