This year, the keynote speech will be delivered by Allan James, Senior Hearing Officer at the UKIPO.Starting at 2 pm and finishing with drinks and canapes from 6:15pm at Simmons’ offices in Citypoint, Moorgate, the full line up is below:14:00-14:30 – Registration14:30-14:40 – Introduction and welcome (Darren Meale)14:40-15:40 – Panel 1 – “When you do nothing or you can’t do anything – acquiescence and other modern challenges in trade mark… [read post]

This year, the keynote speech will be delivered by Allan James, Senior Hearing Officer at the UKIPO.The event will now dedicate one of its two panels to a discussion of the Court of Appeal’s recent decision in Lidl v Tesco.Starting at 2pm and finishing with drinks and canapes from 6:15pm at Simmons’ offices in Citypoint, Moorgate, the full line up is below:14:00-14:30 – Registration14:30-14:40 – Introduction and welcome (Darren Meale)14:40-15:40 –… [read post]

Another comment from the audience was that it is healthy for both parties to share a fear of having to pay some costs, as this encourages the sort of collaborative attempts to work together to address counterfeiting issues that emerged from the L’Oreal v eBay case.ConclusionsEven against the background of a high degree of consensus that the Court should be able to issue injunctions against i [read post]