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A red card for the Premier League?

  • Howes Percival LLP
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  • European Union
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  • February 10 2011

In a non-binding opinion given on 3 February 2011, Advocate General Kokott of the European Court of Justice ("ECJ") has advised that exclusive, territory specific licences of the right to broadcast English Premier League football matches are contrary to EU law

L'Oréal case smells like trouble for product comparison advertising

  • Howes Percival LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • July 5 2010

On 21 May 2010, the Court of Appeal ruled that the use of perfume 'smell-alike' comparison lists amounts to trade mark infringement

Star Wars: episode II

  • Howes Percival LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 28 2010

In September 2008 we updated you on a claim by Lucasfilm (the American film production company founded by George Lucas) and others against Mr Andrew Ainsworth and his company

Virgin Atlantic succeeds in flat-bed seat infringement appeal

  • Howes Percival LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • December 9 2009

The Court of Appeal has upheld an appeal concerning a patent of Virgin Atlantic's seating system for flat-bed seats

Copyright ruling by House of Lords on "Whiter Shade of Pale"

  • Howes Percival LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • August 28 2009

The House of Lords has ruled that Matthew Fisher, who wrote the organ solo introduction to the 1960s song "Whiter Shade of Pale", is entitled to 40 of the royalties from the song

eBay not liable for its users’ infringement in the UK

  • Howes Percival LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • July 21 2009

On 22 May 2009, the High Court ruled that eBay was not liable for sales of infringing or counterfeit goods by its users

Brand protection online

  • Howes Percival LLP
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  • Global, United Kingdom
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  • May 20 2009

The use of keywords andor metatags is very much commonplace in the promotion of a business online via search engines such as Google and Yahoo!