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New EU Counterfeit Goods Regulation

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union
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  • January 28 2013

On 24 January 2013, the Internal Market and Consumer Protection committee of the European Parliament endorsed a new Regulation 51292013EC setting

UK Government response to common European sales law proposal

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • December 3 2012

After years of fierce negotiation, the European Commission published its controversial draft Regulation for a common European sales law on 11 October 2011

European data protection reform: the debate rages on

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union
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  • November 28 2012

The European Commission issued a proposal for data protection reform at the start of 2012

New European consumer agenda to be observed and adopted by businesses

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union
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  • June 20 2012

The European Commission’s new European Consumer Agenda lays out a strategic plan for EU consumer policy until 2014

Binding corporate rules as a global solution for data transfer

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union
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  • June 19 2012

All multinational companies are constantly transferring data relating to identified or identifiable human beings (data subjects

Cross-border sales: tension between copyright distribution rights and free movement rules

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union
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  • April 30 2012

Advocate General Jääskinen has concluded that there is a distribution by sale in a Member State if a seller targets consumers and enables the purchase of copyright-protected works in that State

Working party opinion on the European Commission’s data protection reform proposals

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • European Union
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  • April 30 2012

The Working Party on the Protection of Individuals with regard to the Processing of Personal Data (the Working Party) has adopted an opinion on the European Commission’s proposals for reform of current data protection law

Court of Justice of the European Union provides ruling on keyword jurisdiction

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union
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  • April 30 2012

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), in Wintersteiger AG v Products 4U Sondermaschinenbau GmbH C-52310, has ruled that under Article 5(3) of the Brussels Regulation, an advertiser that uses a keyword that infringes a national trade mark on a country-specific top-level domain (TLD) of a Member State other than the Member State where the national trade mark is registered, can be sued in its Member State of establishment

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