A business will be liable for breach of copyright by a contractor on the premises

A patent application was filed as part of an international project aimed at formulating policies for granting intellectual property rights to inventions created by artificial intelligence.  The application stated that the applicant for the registration of the invention is the representative of the inventor, an artificial intelligence (AI) machine, which generated the inventions autonomously and […]

A company registered the name “Mazor” as a non-stylized word mark, despite knowing that another company had been using the name commercially for several years. The IP Adjudicator ordered the expungement of the trademark from the Register.  The registration of a trademark is intended to protect the trademark owner’s reputation, prevent deception of the public, […]

A candidate for the mayor of Kfar Saba used the song “Siba Tova,” composed by Matti Caspi, in a political campaign video distributed on social media without authorization from the composer and without approval or payment of royalties to ACUM (Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers in Israel), despite his outreach to them. The […]

A Seller of rights in a plot (acquired from a receiver) undertook to complete the recording of the rights in his name within 40 days but the recording was affected only after six years.  The purchasers demanded the full liquidated damages stipulated in the contract (ILS 150,000), which constituted approximately 28% of the transaction value. […]