Finally the new text of the trademark regulation has been officially published in order to harmonise the national trademark laws and practices with the EU trademark. Let us see what the biggest changes are which will presumably have the most effect on trademark practice.

Every year the European Patent Office (EPO) as a fundamental institution ofintellectual property rights in Europe organizes a conference where the recent highlighted decisions are revealed and current trends are analyzed in depths. In today’s IPintz article as a participant I seek to give a brief summary of this event.

The importance of protecting ideas, brands and any kinds of intellectual property is clear for a lot of actors of the market. However, multinational companies such as Nestlé are not afraid of investing money even in decade long courtroom battles to ensure their success.

Contemplating on morale, ethics, law and their relations towards each other is as ancient as those categories themselves and the literature on them could easily fill several libraries. Which is superior, which prevails, which one must we abide when there is a conflict between them is the main topic in Antigone, and the issue was examined by philosophers such as St. Thomas, Niccolo Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, Immanuel Kant and Hans Kelsen just to mention the most important ones.