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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
Advocate general considers jurisdiction for claims of infringement of a national trade mark online
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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
Composite marks: identity, similarity and likelihood of confusion
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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”
Wella fails to prove distinctiveness of SHAPER mark
- McDermott Will & Emery
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- United Kingdom
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- February 29 2012
In Wella Corporation v Alberto-Culver Company 2011 EWHC 3558 (Ch), the UK High Court upheld the decision of a UK Intellectual Property Office Hearing Officer who rejected the application by Wella Corporation to invalidate the Alberto- Culver Company mark FUNKY SHAPER based on Wella’s earlier Community trade mark for SHAPER
Foreign companies need actual customers in the United Kingdom to establish passing off
- McDermott Will & Emery
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- United Kingdom
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- November 29 2011
In Plentyoffish Media Inc v Plenty More LLP 2011 EWHC 2568 (Ch), the High Court of England and Wales has held that a foreign company’s reputation in the United Kingdom does not equate to goodwill in the United Kingdom and that actual customers are needed to bring an action in passing off
Is a trade mark infringed by failure to identify the repackager of a parallel import?
- McDermott Will & Emery
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- Denmark, European Union
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- November 29 2011
In Orifarm AS and Paranova Danmark AS v Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp joined cases C-40009 and C-20710 28 July 2011 (unreported), the Supreme Court in Denmark sought clarification as to the applicability of the exhaustion of rights principle in relation to parallel imports
General Court upholds OHIM refusal of CTM application for shape of loudspeaker
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- European Union
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- November 29 2011
In Bang & Olufsen AS v OHIM T-50808 6 October 2011 (unreported), the General Court upheld a decision by the Office of Harmonization for the Internal Market (OHIM) refusing Bang & Olufsen’s Community trade mark (CTM) application for the shape of a loudspeaker, on the grounds that the mark consisted exclusively of the shape, which gave substantial value to the goods
Top jeans brand 7 For All Mankind could lose right to branded accessories over distinctiveness of “seven”
- McDermott Will & Emery
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- European Union
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- November 29 2011
In Seven SpA v OHIM T-17610 6 October 2011 (unreported) the General Court annulled decision of the Board of Appeal of the Office of Harmonization for the Internal Market (OHIM) that rejected an opposition against the mark SEVEN FOR ALL MANKIND on the basis that the Board had erred in finding that there was no similarity between that mark and earlier composite marks featuring predominantly the word “seven”
Nominet decisions may be subject to appeal to the High Court
- McDermott Will & Emery
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- United Kingdom
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- November 29 2011
In Michael Toth v Emirates 2011 EWPCC 18, his Honour Judge Birss QC, refused to strike out an application seeking to overturn a decision of a Nominet appeal panel that the registration of a domain name was abusive within the Nominet Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) Policy
Further CJEU guidance on keyword advertising and trade mark infringement
- McDermott Will & Emery
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- European Union, United Kingdom
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- November 3 2011
In (1) Interflora Inc. (2) Interflora British Unit v (1) Marks & Spencer plc (2) Flowers Direct Online Ltd, Case C-32309 (22 September 2011), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has provided further guidance on circumstances in which use of a registered trade mark as a keyword by a third party advertiser may constitute trade mark infringement
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