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May 09, 2012
Companies outside Europe could be forgiven for thinking that trademark law around the EU is relatively harmonized, given the EU-level directives and Community trade mark system. Attendees at the Regional Update session on Europe yesterday were reminded, however, that that is not the case with unregistered marks.
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March 16, 2012
The Marks & Clerk group has launched two new IP consultancy businesses in London and Paris
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March 15, 2012
Hogan Lovells won the inaugural global IP firm of the year award at tonight’s Managing IP Awards Dinner in London
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January 27, 2012
Free access: The nominations for Managing IP’s Global Awards 2012 have been announced
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December 15, 2011
Companies that fill packaging on behalf of others cannot infringe a third party’s trade mark, according to the Court of Justice of the EU
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November 30, 2010
The Court of The Hague in The Netherlands has asked the Court of Justice of the EU to clarify three questions on genuine use of Community trade marks in the Onel case
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October 15, 2010
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July 12, 2010
Just 10% of patent settlements in the pharmaceutical sector were problematic in the period July 2008 to December 2009, according to a report adopted by the European Commission
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June 28, 2010
The Icann Board last week brought the .xxx domain closer, approved four Chinese-language internationalised domains and raised the possibility of approving the new gTLD programme in December
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May 03, 2010
In-house lawyers in Europe have suffered a setback after the Court of Justice’s legal adviser recommended that their communications are not afforded legal privilege
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April 09, 2010
Deloitte has released a list of 100 brands that could form the basis for a protected marks list in future TLD rights-protection schemes
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January 07, 2010
The European Commission has opened an antitrust investigation into drugs company Lundbeck, based on information acquired during its sector enquiry into the pharmaceutical industry
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December 07, 2009
A lawyer for one of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies has said that pooling patents over drugs will not solve the major problems of access to medicines
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December 07, 2009
The outgoing commissioner for competition policy has said that the Commission may want to consider “revisting” the issue of parallel trade in the pharmaceutical sector
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September 07, 2009
Publishers, authors, online businesses and lobby groups will tell the European Commission today how the proposed Google Book settlement will affect them
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July 06, 2009
Trade mark and geographical indications disputes involving beer, perfume and Apple’s iPhone were among topics discussed on IP-related blogs last week
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July 06, 2009
The European Commission’s forthcoming study of Europe’s trade mark system should be “comprehensive and wide-ranging”, representatives of users groups said in a letter last week