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Europe: Fighting Dirty

A marketing war between rival vacuum cleaner brands is being dragged through courts across Europe, testing the limits of comparative advertising.

Managing IP Correspondent, March 01 1999
Space agency opens up to US business

Sending rockets into space is not NASA’s only role, Robert Norwood, director of its commercial programmes division, tells Ralph Cunningham.

Managing IP Correspondent, February 01 1999
Major counterfeit seizure

On January 26 this year, the public prosecutor of the City of Örebro, Sweden, Göran Edlund, ordered a search of a storeroom in an abandoned shoe-factory, in order to find evidence of tax evasion. No documents proving tax evasion were found during the search. Instead, the police found approximately 100,000 tee-shirts and sweatshirts printed with a variety of famous trade marks and brands. The garments were probably intended for sale at fairs and markets in Sweden during the coming summer.

Managing IP Correspondent, March 01 1999
Sufficiency and best mode in Australia

Under Australian law "a complete specification must describe the invention fully, including the best method known to the applicant of performing the invention" . Case law states that "....the objection of insufficiency is concerned only with enabling addressees amongst the public, on the expiration of the patentee´ s monopoly, to successfully use the specification for their own purposes.

Managing IP Correspondent, April 30 1999
The best way into Europe

In the Davidoff case, the UK courts severely limited brand owner’s rights to stop parallel imports into Europe.

Managing IP Correspondent, June 30 1999
Japan updates design law

The revised Japanese Design Law came into force on January 1 1999. The main changes are as follows: (1) Broader scope and stronger protection for industrial designs which exhibit creativity:

Managing IP Correspondent, March 01 1999
Trade marks and the Internet in Italy

The Internet has been created and has developed without specific regulations and its creators maintain that its absolute anarchy is an essential condition for its existence. In the absence of regulations, the Internet is regarded as a conquest territory and it frequently happens that the entrepreneurs find out that their trade marks have been registered as domain names by third parties, competitors and non-competitors.

Managing IP Correspondent, March 01 1999
The Netherlands

Cross-border injunctions win approval

Managing IP Correspondent, June 30 1999
Courts divide over foreign rulings

United States district courts have reached different conclusions as to the effect of foreign patent proceedings on US patent litigation.

Managing IP Correspondent, March 01 1999
European Union

Sebago puts pressure back on politicians

Managing IP Correspondent, April 30 1999

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