What to do in the event of a suspicious or misleading trademark payment notice?
It is happening more and more that dishonest private companies and scammers, approach trademark applicants to ask them to pay certain service fees or other payments that are in fact neither necessary nor legally required. In order...
Should artificial intelligence be protected by intellectual property law?
From Netflix recommendation system to self-driving car tests, or the Google Home smart assistant, artificial intelligence (AI), defined by ISO 2382-28 as "the ability of a functional unit to perform functions. commonly associated ...
How the XYZ company wins the auction for the .car, .cars and .auto extensions?
The company XYZ created in 2015 by Daniel Negari, specializing in top level domain names and, more particularly, in the monopoly of the <.xyz> extension, has had great success since Google announced that it had reserved th...
Why is the practice of phishing booming during the coronavirus crisis?
Source: Bank Info Security, Feb. 11, 2020 The global health crisis caused by the coronavirus is a favorable context for this Practice of phishing . Indeed, many organized gangs of cybercriminals are pretending to be h...
Resolving IP disputes through Mediation in France: how does it work?
IPzen team was pleased to sponsor a breakfast debate last February organized by Dreyfus & associés, in association with INTA, the theme was the following: “Resolving IP disputes through Mediation in France“. ...
2019: the key figures of intellectual property (INPI)
The figures in this infographics come from studies conducted by the INPI....
The value of domain names
A "domain name" may be seen as an Internet address which points to a particular website on the internet. Typically, it has three elements: a prefix, an extension and a ‘name’ which may be a word or a combination of lette...
The “right to be forgotten” for Google: in Europe only!
The right to be forgotten refers to the possibility for an individual to request the removal of information from the Internet that could damage his or her reputation. The right to be forgotten applies in two different ways: on the...