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International Commercial Law Blog

Covers international commercial law in the European Union. By M D M Studio Legale.

http://www.internationalcommerciallawblog.com/

Dec 6
Apple succeeds in preventing the registration of “MI PAD” as an EU trade mark

Apple succeeds in preventing the registration of “MI PAD” as an EU trade mark

In 2014, the Chinese company Xiaomi, a company specialising in electronics and mobile telephony, filed an application with the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) for registration of the word sign “MI PAD” as an EU…
Nov 20
The EU Court of Justice sets aside the judgment of the General Court and annuls the EUIPO decision which confirmed registration of the shape of the Rubik’s Cube as an EU trade mark

The EU Court of Justice sets aside the judgment of the General Court and annuls the EUIPO decision which confirmed registration of the shape of the Rubik’s Cube as an EU trade mark

In examining whether registration ought to be refused on the ground that that shape involved a technical solution, EUIPO and the General Court should also have taken into account non-visible functional elements represented by that shape, such…
Nov 19
ICC Court amends its Rules to enhance transparency and efficiency

ICC Court amends its Rules to enhance transparency and efficiency

The International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (the ICC Court) has announced important amendments to the ICC Rules of Arbitration (the Rules) with the aim of further increasing the efficiency and transparency…

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EU Law Blog

Covers European Union law, including antitrust, conflicts of law, criminal law, environment, free movement, fundamental rights, privacy, product liability, and trade.

http://eulaw.typepad.com/eulawblog/

Mar 19
Patent Court, National Courts and EU Law: Opinion 1/09

Patent Court, National Courts and EU Law: Opinion 1/09

The Court of Justice has handed down a very significant Opinion in Case Opinion 1/09 on the compatibility with EU law of a draft agreement which aims to set up a new European Patent Court system. We’ve written about that before.
Mar 3
Court Statistics for 2010

Court Statistics for 2010

The Court of Justice, the General Court and the Civil Service Tribunal have published a summary of their case statistics for 2010. There's good news and bad news. The good news first: The average time for dealing with cases before the Court…
Dec 28
Cannabis, Coffee Shops, Non-Discrimination and Public Policy: Case C-137/09

Cannabis, Coffee Shops, Non-Discrimination and Public Policy: Case C-137/09

The Court of Justice has handed down an intriguing judgment in Case C-137/09 Marc Michel Josemans v. Burgemeester van Maastricht about the right to restrict the access of non-residents to places called "coffee shops" which sell dope legally…

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

Covers European copyright law. By Wolters Kluwer.

http://copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/

Jun 17
Sweden: The Music Mobile, Supreme Court of Sweden, T 3973-15, 29 December 2017

Sweden: The Music Mobile, Supreme Court of Sweden, T 3973-15, 29 December 2017

A full summary of this case has been published on Kluwer IP Law. The Supreme Court clarified the circumstances under which private copying levies should be paid by importers of cell phones, and reached the conclusion that if two technically…
Jun 15
Estonia: Blank tape levy III, Tallinn Circuit Court, 3-13-366, 31 October 2017

Estonia: Blank tape levy III, Tallinn Circuit Court, 3-13-366, 31 October 2017

A full summary of this case has been published on Kluwer IP Law. The Tallinn Circuit Court finally and definitively determined the action in the “blank tape levy” court case. This landmark court case had been pending since…
Jun 14
Website blocking injunctions: an Australian Update

Website blocking injunctions: an Australian Update

Website blocking injunctions have been available in European countries for some years now. In the UK, the first case was brought in 2010 by a group of US movie studios against BT to block access to the Newzbin website. Since then, blocking…

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Kluwer Patent Blog

Provides information and news on European patent law. By Wolters Kluwer.

http://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/

Jun 14
Leading German patent law firms criticize European Patent Office

Leading German patent law firms criticize European Patent Office

Four leading patent law firms in Germany – Grünecker, Hoffmann Eitle, Maiwald and Vossius & Partner – have published an open letter expressing ‘great concern’ about the developments at the European Patent…
Jun 14
Headphones Case Underlines Importance of Fact Evidence

Headphones Case Underlines Importance of Fact Evidence

by Claire Phipps-Jones On 24 April 2018, Roger Wyand QC (sitting as a deputy judge in the High Court) held that a patent belonging to Freebit was invalid and not infringed by Bose’s flexible in-ear earpieces. The key points of interest…
Jun 7
‘EU authority or EPO should be charged with granting unitary SPCs’

‘EU authority or EPO should be charged with granting unitary SPCs’

Establishing a unitary SPC is one of the recommendations of the study carried out by the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition for the European Commission. Either an (existing or a future) EU authority or the European Patent…

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IPso Jure

UK and EU intellectual property developments

http://www.ipsojure.co.uk

Jun 13
The essence of a trade mark

The essence of a trade mark

The draft agreement I am currently reviewing - I won't disclose more about it - contains a definition of "Corporate Design" which has a nice form of words in it: "[T]he official design of the logo and name of the [redacted] brand by which the…
May 23
"Have you not considered Recital 171?"

"Have you not considered Recital 171?"

This week, few lawyers have the luxury of not having to be data protection experts, which is why the subject is intruding into my IP blog. Thank goodness it will all be over on Friday and we can settle down to working with the General Data…
May 13
Interpration or truth?

Interpration or truth?

Nex week there will be a Luxury Law summit in London, I discover. The concept of "luxury law" baffles me, but I guess I am looking at it wrongly - the law that applies to the luxury end of the goods and services market, not a…

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IP Iustitia

Discusses news, cases, legislation and anything to do with Intellectual Property law.

http://www.ipiustitia.com

Jun 12
Well Red - Louboutin's Red Shoe Sole TM is Registrable, Says CJEU

Well Red - Louboutin's Red Shoe Sole TM is Registrable, Says CJEU

The build-up with the Louboutin red sole case has been quite extensive and unique in that Advocate General Szpunar had to give not one, but two opinions on the case ahead of the CJEU's decision (discussed more here and here). There was some…
Jun 5
A Fortine at the PUBG - Can You Protect a Video Game Format?

A Fortine at the PUBG - Can You Protect a Video Game Format?

Video games have effectively become mainstream entertainment during this writer's lifetime, and with that increased popularity their value to companies has also gone up. If one video game becomes popular, other developers often jump at the…
May 30
A New Intelligence - UK House of Lords Releases Report on Artificial Intelligence

A New Intelligence - UK House of Lords Releases Report on Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is absolutely a hot button issue these days, particularly with a focus on what's coming in the near and more distant future and AI's potential impact on people's lives (both in the good and the bad). This writer…

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KluwerTrademarkBlog

Covers EU trademark law. By Wolters Kluwer.

http://trademarkblog.kluweriplaw.com/

Jun 8
Competent or not competent? That’s the question…

Competent or not competent? That’s the question…

The Fourth Board of Appeal (BoA) of the EUIPO has once again been told off by the General Court (GC). In its decision of 6 June 2018 (case T-803/16), the GC decided that the BoA was not competent to rule upon the question of genuine use of…
Jun 4
DAYADAY – General Court once again obliges the EUIPO to assess the precise level of a claimed reputation

DAYADAY – General Court once again obliges the EUIPO to assess the precise level of a claimed reputation

The General Court annulled a decision by the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO, based on an insufficient (or, rather, inexistent) assessment of the reputation claimed by the opponent (GC, 1 June 2018, T‑900/16, only available in Spanish…
Jun 4
Luxury and Glamour win: KENZO ESTATE for wines and other goods misappropriates reputation of KENZO

Luxury and Glamour win: KENZO ESTATE for wines and other goods misappropriates reputation of KENZO

CJEU, 30 May 2018, C-85/16 P, C-86/16 P – Kenzo Tsujimoto v. EUIPO / Kenzo [KENZO ESTATE] The fame of the fashion brand KENZO is such that it can be held against the registration of KENZO ESTATE as an EUTM for wines and…

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DeltaPatents EPO caselaw blog

Summary of recent decisions by boards of appeal of the European patent office (EPO).

http://dp-patentlaw.blogspot.nl/

Jun 8
T2020/14 - Who can request continuation of opposition appeal proceeding after lapse of a patent?

T2020/14 - Who can request continuation of opposition appeal proceeding after lapse of a patent?

In this case the BoA terminated the opposition appeal proceedings in which the patent proprietor was the sole appellant because the patent in suit granted in amended form in opposition had been surrendered with…
Jun 4
T 2106/14 - Workload and travel no excuse for isolated negligence on the part of an applicant

T 2106/14 - Workload and travel no excuse for isolated negligence on the part of an applicant

The applicant in this case failed to meet the time limit for paying a renewal fee with additional fee and requested re-establishment of rights. The Examining Division refused the request, finding that although the applicant's professional…
Jun 4
T 1668/14 - Stretching what an accompaying person can do?

T 1668/14 - Stretching what an accompaying person can do?

G 4/95 is generally understood as providing quite strict requirements as to when and how to announce an accompanying person and as to his/her role and type of contribrutions to oral proceedings in opposition. Citing and just relying on its…

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Regulating for Globalization

Covers the rules of international business, especially (1) trade law, (2) EU law, and (3) labor law. By Wolters Kluwer.

http://regulatingforglobalization.com/

Jun 8
A spouse is a spouse

A spouse is a spouse

With its judgment of 5 June 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union has provided much overdue legal certainty for same-sex couples regarding their right of free movement under the EU Treaties. In the Coman-case, the Romanian Supreme…
Jun 1
Australian High Court opens the way to an appeal on liability for amounts equivalent to duty

Australian High Court opens the way to an appeal on liability for amounts equivalent to duty

Licensed premises authorised to hold goods ‘under customs control’ face a number of noteworthy challenges: the licensing regime is rigorous, setting high standards on applicants to operate premises and those employed in the…
May 28
Legal Issues of Economic Disintegration: Government Procurement and BREXIT

Legal Issues of Economic Disintegration: Government Procurement and BREXIT

Please find below the abstract of “Legal Issues of Economic Disintegration: Government Procurement and BREXIT” by Kamala Dawar, published in Legal Issues of Economic Integration, issue 2, 2018 edited by Geraldo Vidigal This…

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Cyberleagle

Graham Smith's blog on law, IT, the Internet and new media

http://cyberleagle.blogspot.com/

Jun 5
Regulating the internet – intermediaries to perpetrator

Regulating the internet – intermediaries to perpetrator

Nearly twenty five years after the advent of the Web, and longer since the birth of the internet, we still hear demands that the internet should be regulated - for all the world as if people who use the internet were not already subject to…
Apr 30
The Electronic Commerce Directive – a phantom demon?

The Electronic Commerce Directive – a phantom demon?

Right now the ECommerce Directive – or at any rate the parts that shield hosting intermediaries from liability for users’ content - is under siege. The guns are blazing from all directions: The Prime Minister’s speech in…
Apr 27
The IPAct data retention regime lives on (but will have to change before long)

The IPAct data retention regime lives on (but will have to change before long)

The High Court gave judgment this morning on Liberty’s challenge to the mandatory communications data retention provisions of the Investigatory Powers Act (IPAct). The big questions in the Liberty case were:What does the…

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Kanzlei Hellinger

Covers common German law, tax law, ADR and ODR. By Axel Hellinger.

http://hellinger.eu/en/

Jan 19
ESCROW plus for the savedroid ICO

ESCROW plus for the savedroid ICO

HELLINGER.legal - Steuern | Recht | Crypto
Jul 4
Recyclix und die BaFin

Recyclix und die BaFin

Update: Die Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht stellt Nachforschungen hinsichtlich Recyclix an. Wie mir aus zuverlässiger Quelle mitgeteilt wurde, hat die BaFin mittlerweile begonnen, in der Sache „Recyclix“…
Jun 19
Smart Contract | Wirksamkeit & Unwirksamkeit von Vertragsprogrammen

Smart Contract | Wirksamkeit & Unwirksamkeit von Vertragsprogrammen

Der Smart Contract wird aktuell als bahnbrechende Fortentwicklung des Rechtssystems gehandelt. Die genaue Betrachtung ist jedoch ernüchternd. Vielfach fehlt es an Rechtswirksamkeit des Smart Contract selbst. Neben dieser und anderer…

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European Court of Human Rights

Covers European Court of Human Rights documents and information.

http://ecohr.wordpress.com

Oct 4
Turkey hittings military targets in Syria

Turkey hittings military targets in Syria

Turkish artillery hit targets near Syria’s Tel Abyad border town for a second day on Thursday, killing several Syrian soldiers according to activists and security sources, after a mortar bomb fired from the area killed five Turkish…
Oct 3
Turkey bombed military targets in Syria

Turkey bombed military targets in Syria

Turkey’s military struck targets inside Syria on Wednesday in response to a mortar bomb fired from Syrian territory which killed five Turkish civilians, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an’s office said in a statement. “Our armed forces…
Oct 2
Russia Calls for Calm on Tense Turkish-Syria Border

Russia Calls for Calm on Tense Turkish-Syria Border

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov has urged restraint between Turkey and Syria, calling for calm on the tense Turkish-Syrian border. “We believe both Syrian and Turkish authorities should exercise maximum restraint in this…

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European Union Law

Covers legal issues in the European Union. By Vihar Georgiev.

http://eulaw.wordpress.com

Jan 28
The EU Fiscal Stability Treaty: Summary and Analysi

The EU Fiscal Stability Treaty: Summary and Analysi

UPDATE: the approved text of the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union is available here.
Jan 28
The EU Fiscal Stability Treaty: Summary and Analysi

The EU Fiscal Stability Treaty: Summary and Analysi

UPDATE: the approved text of the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union is available here. The Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union is…
Dec 24
Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays!

Dear friends, I wish you happy holidays and a prosperous New Year!

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