by manuel.roche | Apr 15, 2013 | All, Trademarks
Does a composite marks consisting of a company name and a third party’s registered trademark automatically infringe this earlier right even when the reproduced element is not dominant? Community and French courts tend to answer affirmatively when: The reproduced...
by manuel.roche | Mar 28, 2013 | All, Patents
After 30 years of fruitless trying, a new European intellectual property right has been created: the European patent with unitary effect (hereinafter referred to as the unitary patent). It provides for uniform protection throughout the territories of the participating...
by manuel.roche | Mar 25, 2013 | All, Copyright, Internet
The European Court of Human Rights recently declared inadmissible the complaint filed by two founding members of the website The Pirate Bay that their convictions for copyright infringement by Swedish courts interfered with their right to freedom of expression under...
by manuel.roche | Feb 28, 2013 | All, Internet, Trademarks
The creation of new domain names extensions or new generic top-level domains (new gTLDs) before ICANN (Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers) represents a true technical and legal revolution in the digital world. It also means great risks for trademark...
by manuel.roche | Feb 28, 2013 | All, Designs, Trademarks
The registered Community design will celebrate its 10th anniversary on April 1, 2013. These 10 years have enabled the Courts to clarify the conditions of protection of this unified title. According to the Community regulation, “the assessment as to whether a design...
