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Halla Cloth Monopolies
Halla cloths are decorative napkin-like covers used on the Sabbath, that symbolize the dew on the double portion of manna collected by the Children of Israel on Fridays in the wilderness. Back in...
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Legislation by Interpretation – Israel Commissioner of Patents Considers...
Challenging an Examiner’s decision based on Patent Office Circular M.N. 69, Sertic Vanja filed an appeal arguing that Israel Design Number 45452 was a novel design in Israel, and previous Internet...
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Protecting Designer Clothing from Cheap Imitations
The Israel clothing designer Tally Dadon-Yifrach sells her designs under the label Vision. The clothing was available through various outlets, including Griffin Fashion in Azor and Givatayim, in...
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Israel Court rules that there is copyright in a font and Microsoft ordered to...
Back in October 2010, we reported an interim decision by Judge Grosskopf that fonts are copyright protectable. See /copyright/ Professor Grosskopf has now issued a full ruling on the subject as...
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Are ‘Design Concepts’ Protectable in Israel?
Haya Rivka Windling-Yoskovitz imports and sells wrapping materials and decorations for events through a company variously named “The Tasteful Choice”, Organza and Organza 2010, from 2006. Some of her...
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Book Review: Intellectual Property Law and Practice in Israel
When I first saw this book I suspected from its thickness (36 mm (1 15/32″ thick) that the authors had resorted to the well known strategy of adding appendices such as copies of the Israel Patent Law,...
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What happens to Rights where Israel Patent Office Mail Goes Astray?
Design examinations should take up to 12 months. If no response is sent to an office action, a notice of abandonment is eventually sent, that gives the applicant two weeks to respond. Concerning Design...
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Design Registrations Cancelled After Court Rules Lack of Novelty on Filing Date
Eli Shafir owned three registered designs – 44798, 44799 and 44800. On suing A. A. Maayanot LTD. for infringement in the Haifa District Court, A. A. Maayanot LTD. filed a cancellation action in the...
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This case, concerning sales of flag poles for attaching flags to cars, that infringed a registered design, is a landmark case, in that this is the first time that the Israel Supreme Court has ruled on...
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Should the Shape of Rubik’s Cube be Protectable as a Trademark?
I received an email from an Israeli Patent Attorney last week with the rather inflammatory heading “is the Rasham [Israel Registrar of Patents and Trademarks MF] an idiot or was he bribed?” Somewhat...
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Intellectual Property Law in Israel – Book Review
Intellectual Property Law in Israel is a 256 page soft back book published by Wolters Kluwer that was originally published as a monograph in the International Encyclopaedia of Laws/Intellectual...
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Israel Supreme Court Upholds Ruling of Non-infringement of Breaking &...
In 1998, Ofer, Extinguishing, Extracting and Saving LTD supplied hydraulic systems for breaking into looked buildings manufactured by Holmatro to the Israel Ministry of Defense, where they were...
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Similar watches with different brand names
Ice s.a. (formerly TKS) and ICE IP s.a. (formerly Chinalux SA) vend watches that are known as ice-watches. A range of these watches are shown below. They have all sorts of distinctive features, like a...
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Israel Supreme Court Overturns Ruling Concerning Unjust Enrichment
Reversed Challa Cover! Back in January 2012, then Jerusalem District Court Judge Yaakov Shapira issued a permanent injunction against a Merkaz Matanot 2006, a competitor and former client of the...
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Chinese Copycat Products not illegal and down will come baby, cradle and all…
Dvaron Import-Export sell a baby rocker. The products were manufactured and imported from China. Fisher Price Inc. and Mattel Inc. sued claiming copyright infringement, passing off, trademark...
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Hoodies and Diesel – Registered Clothing Design
Diesel have a registered design. They sued Hoodies in the Central District Court for infringement, and Hoodies then filed an Application to cancel Israel design Number 51959 as lacking novelty since...
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Double Jeopardy in A Design Cancellation
Diesel S.P.A. own Israel Design No. 51959 and Hoodies LTD filed for cancellation of the design claiming that it was published in Israel prior to registration which is contrary to the current...
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A scratch line on a profile as a trademark indicating origin
If a design feature on a profile serves to indicate the origin of that profile, it may be registered as a trademark. Israel trademark application 240319 filed by AL-SHURKAH ALWATANEYA LISENAET...
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Israel Patent Office Denies Authority to Reinstate a Lapsed Design After...
Gabi Bakshi has two registered designs that have lapsed. Design Number IL 40188 is for a dove shaped sculpture. It was registered in January 2005 and renewed in November 2009. It then lapsed because...
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Michel Mercier Coexistence Agreement Refused by Israel Patent and Trademark...
As previously reported, Campalock LTD (formerly Michel Mercier LTD) and Michel Mercier previously reached a coexistence agreement which was rejected by the Israel Patent Office who fined both parties...
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