No Break for Nestlé from the Court of Appeal: Refusal of KITKAT shape mark upheld
June 14, 2017
Post by Lynne Chave Lynne is a PhD candidate at the School of Law. Her research investigates the extent to which trade mark and design protection of product shapes overlap. The decision last month from the Court of Appeal of England and Wales is the latest stage in Nestlé’s attempt to gain trademark registration …
Intangible Cultural Heritage: A step forward in the Protection of Traditional Knowledge in Colombia
May 22, 2017
The peoples of Kogi, Wiwa, Arhuaco and Kankuamo from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta recently achieved recognition of their ancestral knowledge systems as culturally relevant elements and became an established part of the Colombian Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. Among others, such ancestral knowledge includes their language and oral traditions, social organisation, …