Author: Boyana Boyadzhieva Fashion, as a field of continuous development, penetrates into every aspect of our lives and has a significant impact on: culture - fashion has always been intertwined with culture, reflecting societal values, norms and trends. Fashion designers often draw[...]

Author: Preslav Baldzhiev This article will provide more information about mediation in intellectual property as an alternative method for resolving disputes. Conflicts between two or more people are common, regardless of the field in which they practice. Disputes that arise do not[...]

Author: Preslav Baldzhiev With the development of technology, consumers are getting more and more new ways to have fun. In the last 20 years, a significant part of the entertainment industry has been occupied by video games, which are increasingly displacing film[...]

Author: Preslav Baldzhiev Everyone has heard of the Land of Opportunities. Now, these opportunities are increasingly provided by the Internet and its social media platforms, which are extremely convenient for all artists, amateurs, and producers. The wide range of people reached by[...]

Introduction The Benelux Intellectual Property Office has developed and provided the i-DEPOT service, which is a register of information whose confidentiality has been maintained. Another similar service is WIPO PROOF, which was developed by the World Intellectual Property Organization. Anyone can take[...]

Introduction In May 2020, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) launched an entirely new online business service called WIPO PROOF. WIPO PROOF provides evidence through a digital fingerprint (token) containing the date and time of a digital file in order to verify[...]

International design registration is administered by the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), located in Geneva, Switzerland. The Hague Agreement establishes an international registration system, which allows design owners to obtain protection for their industrial designs in countries that[...]

Community design (or also known as a European Union design or European industrial design) is the appearance of the whole or a part of a product resulting from the features of, in particular, the lines, contours, colors, shape, texture and/or materials of[...]

The United Kingdom and the EU have ratified the Withdrawal Agreement. With this, on 31 January 2020, the United Kingdom left the European Union, and the so-called transitional period (from 1 February 2020 to 31 December 2020) began. During the transitional period,[...]

This article will describe the procedure for the surrender of industrial design registration, which is regulated in Article 28 of the Bulgarian Industrial Design Act and the Instruction on Requests for the Registration of Changes in the Legal Status of Industrial Property[...]