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Does the use of another trade mark as internet keyword infringe? The Advocate General doesn't think so

  • Wragge & Co LLP
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  • European Union
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  • September 29 2009

In an opinion which many may find quite political, Advocate General Poiares Maduro has delivered his views to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in the Google AdWords references

Does my mark have a reputation in the Community?

  • Wragge & Co LLP
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  • European Union
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  • May 15 2009

Article 9(1)(c) of the Community Trade Mark Regulation provides: "A Community trade mark shall confer on the proprietor exclusive rights therein."

Pirate Bay has no safe harbour in E-commerce Directive

  • Wragge & Co LLP
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  • Sweden
  • -
  • June 3 2009

The case B13301-06, Plaintiffs (Sony & many others), Defendants (Carl Ulf Sture Lundstrom and others) was a decision from the Stockholm District Court relating to the infamous Pirate Bay website

Is eBay an IP pirate or merely the unaware ocean over which such pirates may sail?

  • Wragge & Co LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 11 2009

In the rush to respond to the UK courts' first judgment considering the potential liability of eBay for trade mark infringement, many commentators have published accounts which may be misleading

The English courts' turn to make a reference to the ECJ in yet another Google keyword trade mark dispute

  • Wragge & Co LLP
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 13 2009

In yet another trade mark dispute resulting from Google's AdWord service, the UK High Court has decided to refer a "comprehensive" list of questions to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) before the hearing of the main trial

Getting their grooves back

  • Wragge & Co LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 7 2009

Many intellectual property agreements include a clause which specifies certain consequences if material breaches are not remedied after a period of notice

Revoking unused marks and applying L'Oréal v Bellure to infringement arguments

  • Wragge & Co LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 16 2009

The UK High Court has given guidance on this issue in a trade mark dispute in which Daimler AG claimed that Sany Group Company Limited had infringed its well-known three-point star Mercedes device marks (four UK national marks and two community trade marks in classes 7 and 12

The Advocate General confirms that Lego's Community Trade Mark for its standard brick was invalid

  • Wragge & Co LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • March 16 2010

Lego obtained a Community Trade Mark for the shape of its typical 24 construction toy brick on 19 October 1999

CJEU provides clarity on the sending and receiving of data

  • Wragge & Co LLP
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  • European Union
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  • October 24 2012

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has provided guidance on whether website use of the content of a database protected by the sui generis database right amounts to 'extraction' or 're-utilisation' for the purpose of assessing infringement. It has also confirmed where that use is to be regarded as having taken place