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Privilege against self-incrimination and the scope of the intellectual property exception

McDermott Will & Emery
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United Kingdom
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March 30 2012

In Stephen John Coogan v News Group Newspapers Ltd 2012 EWCA Civ 48 the Court of Appeal of England and Wales upheld orders from the High Court of England and Wales requiring the private investigator for the former News of the World newspaper, Mr Mulcaire, to provide information regarding his phone hacking activities, despite Mr Mulcaire’s argument that to do so would infringe his privilege against self-incrimination

Registered community designs can infringe earlier registered community designs

McDermott Will & Emery
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European Union
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March 30 2012

The Court of Justice of the European Union has clarified the interpretation of the term “any third party” in Article 19(1) of the Community Designs Regulation (62002EC) in its decision in Case C-48810 Celaya Emparanza y Galdos Internacional SA (Cegasa) v Proyectos Integrales de Balizamiento SL

Advocate general considers jurisdiction for claims of infringement of a national trade mark online

McDermott Will & Emery
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European Union
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March 30 2012

In Wintersteiger AG v Products 4U Sondermaschinenbau GmbH C-52310 (Opinion of Advocate General) 16 February 2012, Advocate General Pedro Cruz Villalón considered that the proprietor of a national trade mark may be able to bring an infringement action in the Member State of registration against a third party that has registered a keyword used on a national search engine that is identical to the mark

Pub landlords found to infringe the Premier League’s copyright: pyrrhic victory after all?

McDermott Will & Emery
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European Union, United Kingdom
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March 30 2012

In Football Association Premier League Ltd v QC Leisure 2012 EWHC 108 (Ch) Lord Justice Kitchin has now accepted that the Defendant publicans communicated copyright works contained in foreign broadcasts of Premier League matches to the public, following the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruling to that effect in October 2011

The protection of football fixture lists under the EU Database Directive

McDermott Will & Emery
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European Union
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March 30 2012

On 1 March 2012, the Court of Justice of the European Union passed judgement on Football Dataco Ltd v Yahoo! UK Ltd 2012 CJEU C-60410, concluding that the football fixture lists in question are not protected by copyright as there is insufficient intellectual creation on the part of the author

The “innocent” copying defence: only applicable to works out of copyright

McDermott Will & Emery
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United Kingdom
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March 30 2012

In David Hoffman v Drug Abuse Resistance Education (UK) Ltd 2012 EWPCC 2, the Patents County Court of England and Wales assessed the use of the “innocent copying” defence under Section 97 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988

Serious e-privacy breaches: ICO guidance on monetary penalties

McDermott Will & Emery
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United Kingdom
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March 30 2012

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has laid before the UK Parliament a draft of its new guidance on monetary penalties

Composite marks: identity, similarity and likelihood of confusion

McDermott Will & Emery
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United Kingdom
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March 30 2012

In Ghias (ta Griller) v Ikram 2012 EWPCC 3, Miss Recorder Michaels, sitting in the Patents County Court, partly upheld but largely dismissed claims of infringement under Section 10(1), (2) and (3) of the Trade Mark Act 1994 brought by a fast food business chain trading as “Griller”, against three similar businesses trading as “Griller”“The Griller Original”, “The Griller King” and “Griller Hut”

“UK’s safest broadband”: TalkTalk in breach of CAP and BCAP Code

McDermott Will & Emery
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United Kingdom
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February 29 2012

TalkTalk’s adverts claiming to offer the “UK’s safest broadband” have been found to be in breach of the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) and Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP) Code

Nominet proposes changes to UK generic top level domain name registration rules

McDermott Will & Emery
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United Kingdom
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February 29 2012

Nominet, which runs one of the world’s largest internet registries and manages over nine million domain names, has proposed changing the rules of domain name registration for .ltd.uk, and .plc.uk domains to ensure that each company is entitled to a unique domain name

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