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Rights holders, internet platforms and anti-counterfeiting organisations sign memorandum of understanding

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • July 5 2011

Various stakeholders in the field of e-commerce have reached a non-binding agreement to cooperate in the fight against the sale of counterfeit goods online

LOCOG v H&S Media Ltd: London Olympics Association Right and mylondon2012.com

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 30 2010

The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Ltd v H&S Media Ltd World Intellectual Property Organization Case No. D2010-0415 (29 April 2010), is a cyber-squatting case grounded in trade mark rights as well as in the London Olympics Association Right (LOAR) created by the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act 2006

Transport for London: domain name use and genuine use

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 30 2010

In BL O-126-10 Transport for London (tfl and TFL) (Appeal to the Appointed Person) 23 April 2010, Edward Smith, sitting as the Appointed Person, rejected Transport for London's opposition to an application by Jason Wright to register "tfl" (in lower case) as a trade mark for search engine and domain name management services in Classes 42 and 45

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation v Newzbin Ltd 2010 EWHC 608 (Ch): major victory for film industry against online piracy

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 3 2010

Mr Justice Kitchin's judgment in this case represents a major victory for the film industry against online piracy

Keywords, sponsored links and trade mark infringement

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • April 30 2010

AdWords enables advertisements (sponsored links) to be displayed, in return for payment, alongside natural search results that appear in response to keywords

eBay not liable for sales of counterfeit Tiffany jewelry

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 28 2010

Upholding a district court’s 2008 ruling that eBay was not liable for trademark infringement based on sales of counterfeit Tiffany & Co. jewelry on eBay’s website, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that an online service provider must possess more than a general knowledge or reason to know that its service is being used to sell counterfeit goods in order to impose contributory trademark infringement liability

Google AdWords striking a trademark balance

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • April 28 2010

The eagerly awaited decision of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) found that Google's AdWords system, which uses trademarks in its search engine, does not infringe EU trademark rights

Registration requirement does not restrict a subject-matter jurisdiction over infringement claims involving unregistered works

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 31 2010

In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court of the United States held that although the Copyright Act’s registration requirement, 17 U.S.C. 411(a), is a precondition to filing a copyright infringement claim, a copyright holder’s failure to comply with that requirement does not restrict a federal court’s subject-matter jurisdiction over infringement claims involving unregistered works

Transfer of over 1500 domain names

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • Global
  • -
  • March 31 2010

In Inter-Continental Hotels Corporation, Six Continents Hotels v Daniel Kirchhof D2009-1661 WIPO, a Uniform Domain- Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) panellist ordered the transfer of over 1500 domain names from an individual registrant, to Six Continents

Google held liable for copyright infringement for bulk scanning of books

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • February 28 2010

The Paris Court of First Instance's third chamber has ruled that Google Inc.’s bulk scanning of books for its Google Book Search website, done without permission from copyright holders, infringed the copyrights on hundreds of French books

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