The agreement, lodged in federal court in Boston, resolves federal and state liability claims against 49 potentially responsible parties for the cleanup of the site. [read post]

- Amsterdam Court of Appeal rules in favour of Hachette Filipacchi Press, publisher of Elle magazine, in trade name/trade mark infringement litigation brought by clothing company WE Netherlands (Class 46)   Poland District Administrative Court in Warsaw: ALDO S and ALDI not similar (Class 46)   South Africa More on the Springbok emblem (Afro-IP)   Sweden Appeal Court rules on reproduction of album cover artwork in case against Åhléns (International… [read post]

You can separately subscribe to the IP Thinktank Global week in Review at the Subscribe page: [duncanbucknell.com] Highlights this week included: CAFC sets strict standards to establish inequitable conduct: Star Scientific v R J Reynolds Tobacco: (Hal Wegner), (Maryland Intellectual Property Law Blog), (Patent Prospector), (Patent Docs), (Patently-O), (more from Patently-O), (Philip Brooks), (Law360), (I/P Updates), Safe harbour ruling in Io v Veoh could help YouTube in… [read post]

, (Daily Dose of IP), 11-12 September: US LSI: 4th annual conference on ‘Current issues in complex IP licensing’ – Philadelphia: (Patent Docs), 11 September/15 October: PLI seminar on developments in pharmaceutical and biotech patent law – New York/San Francisco: (Patent Docs), 15-16 September: UniForum & SAIIPL domain name ADR workshop – Centurion (South Africa): (Afro-IP), 15-16 September: US ACI 10th advanced forum on biotech patents… [read post]