In a significant step towards modernizing the European Union (EU) design protection system, the Council and the European Parliament reached a provisional agreement on December 5, 2023, to modernize Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 of 12 December 2001 on Community designs and Directive 98/71/EC on the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 1998 on the legal protection of designs (“EU Design Protection System”). The EU Design Protection System has been in force…
February 2023 saw a landmark decision for brand owners and digital assets, as a first instance court decided the first US case to consider the application of trademark rights to digital artworks linked to Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). The decision (detailed in our alert here) centered around “MetaBirkins”: a collection of unique virtual tokens linked to digital faux-fur versions of the coveted Hermès Birkin bag. Hermès sued Rothschild for trademark infringement, dilution and cybersquatting, and the…
The Vietnam Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism is working on the latest version of the Draft Copyright Decree to submit to the Government for review very soon.