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Landmark victory for Vespa in the field of trademark law

At the end of 2023, Piaggio, the manufacturer of Vespa scooters, finally won the several-year battle with the European Union Intellectual Property Office. Namely, Piaggio was the holder of a shape trademark 011686706: (Photo undertaken from: https://www.tmdn.org/tmview/#/tmview/detail/EM500000011686706) But in 2021 the Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property...

Changes and Amendments to the Value Added Tax Law

In the Official Gazette of the Republic of North Macedonia, No. 199 dated September 25, 2023, the Law amending and supplementing the Value Added Tax Law has been published. According to Article 24, the Law enters into force on the day of its publication in the Official Gazette of the...

Are the intellectual property rights human rights?

The first regulations governing the intellectual property date back to the nineteenth century and are at the level of international conventions. But the expansion of national codification of intellectual property rights took place in the first half of the twentieth century. On December 10, 1948, the first turning point was...