The March edition of the ECTA Bulletin is out with a cover dedicated to the ECTA 41st Annual Conference in Prague! You will read about:

🔷 the programme of the ECTA Annual Conference, the most important event for our association;

🔷 the application of the Cofemel decision at Member States level in an extensive review;

🔷 the recent ECTA webinar on IP in Africa and workshop on the Metaverse and NFTs;

🔷 changes in Russian IP law, in response to the international community’s reaction to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine;

🔷 the relationship of parody with IP law in the Czech Republic;

🔷 the brief history of oral hearings at the EUIPO;

🔷 interesting cases from Italy on competing Octopus design, toilet seat covers, family feuds and family brands;

🔷 Banksy’s win before the Board of Appeal;

🔷 the value of an LLM degree in the US in the interview with Prof. Daryl Lim from Penn State University;

🔷 latest activities of ECTA Committees. GREAT NEWS: General Committee Elections have recently concluded, and we are proud to announce that we received the highest number of applications ever, with many new members expressly joining ECTA to serve on a Committee!

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