IP Case Reports - Trade Marks, Designs, Copyright & Confidential Information 

 
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Here are recent case reports on trade mark, designs, copyright and confidential information cases, including appeals from the UK Intellectual Property Office to the Appointed Office to the Appointed Person, judgments from the Courts (England & Wales) and decisions of the General Court (previously known as the Court of First Instance) and the European Court of Justice.

The reports are prepared monthly by our lawyers in the London IP department under Katharine Stephens' direction and published in the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys journal. To find a case report of particular interest, you can also search our archive by using the tool on the left.  The reports go back to January 2001.

01.11.2010
This month we report on a case that looks at genuine use of marks in conjunction with other signs, Villa Alme Azienda vitivinicola di Vizzotto Giuseppe v OHIM; Marques de Murrieta SA. We look at a case ...
01.10.2010
This month we report on the high profile case concerning "The Stig", a character from the BBC television programme, Top Gear, in the case of British Broadcasting Corporation v HarperCollins Publishing ...
01.09.2010
This month we report on trade mark renewal during oppositions in Anheuser-Busch Inc. v OHIM; Budějovický Budvar, which concerned an application for registration of 'Budweiser'. We look at Specsavers International ...
01.08.2010
This month we report on the use of keywords in the resale of goods in Portakabin Ltd, Portakabin BV v Primakabin BV; we consider the case of Nintendo Company Ltd & Anr v Playables Ltd & Anr in ...
01.07.2010
This month we report on 'positional marks' in X Technology Swiss v GmbH v OHIM, we look at the question of registering personal names in Eugenia Montero Padilla v OHIM and the issue of registering domain ...
01.06.2010
This month we report on the registration of single non-stylised letter marks in OHIM v BORCO in which a company sought to register as a figurative CTM the greek lower case letter alpha for alcoholic beverages ...
01.05.2010
This month we report on questions referred to the CJ relating to AdWords in Interflora Inc & Anr v Marks & Spencer PLC & Anr, we report on the issue of succession of re-sale rights combined ...
01.04.2010
This month we report on a number of decisions of the GC which touch on what makes a trade mark "distinctive".  In Pavel Maslyukov v Diageo the issue of when an appeal is allowed was visited and ...
01.03.2010
This month we report on the registration of .eu domain names in bad faith, highlighted by the Interportal und Marketing GmBH v Richard Schlicht  case, plus recent case law in the area of passing off, including ...
01.02.2010
This month we report on the dismissal by the GC regarding the appeal by Trubion in Trubion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v OHIM; Merck KGaA, the GC finding that there was a likelihood of confusion between the ...
 
 
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