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Habitat
This trademark ruling concerns marks for Habitat in Hebrew and English. Habitat Design International had registered the English word-mark Habitat as a trademark in Israel. In 1976 Abraham Myerovitz...
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Yemenite Singer Sues Competitor for Copyright Infingement Asking for 200,000...
The Questions in Dispute Did Yehezkel Panyan infringe the copyright of Aharon Amram’s song “A Tear in the Eye”? To answer this question, we have to look at the claims raised by the defendant which...
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Supreme Court dismisses appeals by Fried and IAI for Millions & Billions of...
The present ruling is concerned with a double appeal to the Supreme Court, with Israel Aircraft Industries appealing a waiver given to Israel Fried of court filing fees for the filing fee for first...
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Is AKUM’s Arbitration Clause Enforceable?
Leah Zlotnick is an Israeli singer, composer and lyricist who was born in 1959 to a Yemenite family, and immigrated to Israel as a baby. Her career took off in 1990 and she sings in Hebrew, Arabic and...
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Compensation for Copyright and moral Rights Infringement
A professional photographer, Israel Cohen, took a rare photograph of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky at home, participating in a ceremony destroying mobile phones with a hammer. The defendant, Kav Religious...
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Can a Patent Term Extension be Extended Retroactively?
Appeal 2070/19 GmbH Pharma UCB vs. Commissioner of Patents This is a request for a further hearing of the District Court ruling rejecting an appeal of 29979-1-18 by Judge Jakobi that appealed a ruling...
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Diluting Nespresso Coffee by Parody – Background to Israel Supreme Court Ruling
Nespresso has an international advertising campaign featuring George Clooney. A compilation of these may be found here. Apparently the subliminal message is that if one “drinks different”, one will...
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Nespresso Parody – Supreme Court Rules on Trademark Infringement
This is the second of a series of articles regarding advertisements by Espresso Club that parody advertisements by Nespresso that feature George Clooney as a presenter. The Appellant, Nespresso, claims...
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Copyright Issues in Photomontage
This ruling looks at whether Gross, the printer of a montage poster by Tratkover entitled “The Declaration”, can be considered as having copyright in the pictures if he had a role in the selection of...
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Employee Appeals Invention Compensation Committee Ruling to Israel Supreme Court
When ruling as the High Court of Justice – Bagatz, Israel’s Supreme Court rules on the legality of decisions of State authorities: government decisions, those of local authorities and other bodies and...
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