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BWB fines cartel of wholesalers dealing in printing chemicals

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Austria
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  • April 30 2010

Four wholesalers dealing in printing chemicals have been fined approximately 1.5 million in total by the Austrian Cartel Court (on the request by the Austrian Federal Competition Authority (“BWB”)) for being involved in a price-fixing cartel

ECJ ruling means cup half full for drinks retailer

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Austria, European Union
  • -
  • March 10 2010

The ECJ has made a preliminary ruling that PAGO International GmbH’s Community trade mark can benefit from the protection afforded by Article 9(1)(c) of Council Regulation (EC) No 4094 as the trade mark is known by a significant part of the relevant public in a substantial part of the EU

Austria is a ‘substantial part’ of the EC for CTM infringement

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Austria, European Union
  • -
  • December 16 2009

The ECJ has made a preliminary ruling that PAGO International GmbH’s Community trade mark can benefit from the protection afforded by Article 9(1)(c) of Council Regulation (EC) No 4094 as the trade mark is known by a significant part of the relevant public in a substantial part of the EU

Bad-faith bunnies: Case C-52907 Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli AG v Franz Hauswirth GmbH (11 June 2009)

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Austria, European Union
  • -
  • September 14 2009

This was a referral to the ECJ arising from a dispute about chocolate Easter bunnies

CTM infringement: meaning of “substantial part of the Community”

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Austria, European Union
  • -
  • June 10 2009

In the case of PAGO International GmbH v Tirol Milch registriete GmbH Advocate General (AG) Sharpston has advised the ECJ to find that the owner of a Community Trade Mark (CTM) may only sue for trade mark infringement, for use of a sign identical or similar to their own on dissimilar goods, where it is able to show that the CTM has a reputation in a substantial part of the Community