Google News, a news aggregation service that left Spain in 2014, will be returning early 2022. This is due to the Spanish transposition...

The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) has issued a statement to address the controversial topic of "login for hire"...

Financial media is recently reporting a surge in operations related to the sale of music catalogs: from Neil Young to Shakira and Bob...

#GIs #tequila Can a beer be labeled as having tequila flavour, if it contains only 1% of this ingredient? This is the controversy that...

The sound of a can opening followed by several seconds of fizzing cannot be a trademark, according to the General Court of the European...

Esquivel & Martin Santos has been listed in the IAM Patent 1000 ranking of top patent practitioners. The IAM Patent 1000 is commonly...

#patents General media is recently running many stories regarding COVID vaccine patents and the possibility of waiving IP rights to make...

#copyright #tc The Spanish Supreme Court has decided in a recent ruling that the performance of a bullfighter cannot be subject to...

#nintendo #copyright The Commercial Courts of Barcelona have ordered Internet access providers in Spain to block access to three websites...

#wtr1000 World Trademark Review has included Esquivel & Martin Santos in its annual ranking of best intellectual property firms in Spain...

#upc #patents The German upper and lower houses of congress (Bundestag and Bundesrat) adopted the draft ratification bill including the...

#cjeu #ferrari The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has decided on the case C-720/18 that Ferrari can retain their...

#eu #policy The Council of the European Union, the intergovernmental body that discusses, amends and adopt laws, has issued the plan of...

#iberianlawyer #IBLFortyUnder40 Our partner Victoria Sofía Martín has been shortlisted for the Iberian Lawyer Forty Under 40 awards....

It's that time of the year again - the INTA Annual Meeting. Only this time we won't have the chance to meet in person. That doesn't mean...

#trademarks #myanmar As previously informed in this blog, Myanmar is set to finally launch a trademark system analog to the rest of the...

#copyright #cjeu The CJEU has delivered the decision Constantin Film Verleih v Google and YouTube deciding that a video platform operator...

#trademarks #euipo #moonboot Companies are increasingly trying to look beyond traditional trademarks and attempt the registration of...

#copyrights #brompton #cjeu The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has further extended the applicability of copyright to...

#trademarks #euipo Food group Kraft, owner of the Oreo brand, has succesfully blocked the registration in the EU of a version of their...