The petitioner sought the transfer of ‘hot.Israel’ in Hebrew characters under the IL-DRP based on its use of HOT as a trademark since 1996, among other things. The panel determined that the word ‘hot’ in Hebrew characters is not generic. The...

In December 2022, the Ministry of Justice published an opinion on whether Machine Learning enterprises can use copyrighted material to train Artificial Intelligence systems without permission. Machine Learning (ML) refers to a computer’s...

Israel is a first world economy, and, notwithstanding its challenging geopolitical situation, has been ranked as one of the best-performing economies for decades. Furthermore, Israel is the source of many cutting-edge technological developments. Despite being a small market, many start-ups are being...

On August 2, 2022, the Privacy Protection Authority published a document detailing the challenges of privacy protection involved in the use of telemedicine services.[1] The document presents recommendations regarding how these services should be used...

The examiner refused to accept the mark CHEF LINE for goods and services in Classes 7, 11 and 35 on the ground that it was descriptive The adjudicator upheld the examiner’s finding that CHEF LINE was devoid of inherent distinctiveness However, the...

In a landmark ruling in the matter of MCA 32365-05-20 Intra‑Cellular Therapies, Inc. v. The Patents Authority ,the Tel Aviv District Court reversed a decision of the Patents Registrar, who refused to grant a patent on an invention directed to a...

After years of delays, Europe’s Unified Patent Court and Unitary Patent system will be implemented in about a year from now. The Unified Patent Court and Unitary Patent system represents the most important change ever seen in the European patent...

On August 29th 2021, the Israel Ministry of Justice published an exposure bill proposing to introduce into Israel patent law, an exemption from infringement of a PTE Order, along the lines of the EU so called manufacturing waiver, albeit...