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Privilege against self-incrimination and the scope of the intellectual property exception
- McDermott Will & Emery
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- United Kingdom
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- March 30 2012
In Stephen John Coogan v News Group Newspapers Ltd 2012 EWCA Civ 48 the Court of Appeal of England and Wales upheld orders from the High Court of England and Wales requiring the private investigator for the former News of the World newspaper, Mr Mulcaire, to provide information regarding his phone hacking activities, despite Mr Mulcaire’s argument that to do so would infringe his privilege against self-incrimination
Pub landlords found to infringe the Premier League’s copyright: pyrrhic victory after all?
- McDermott Will & Emery
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- European Union, United Kingdom
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- March 30 2012
In Football Association Premier League Ltd v QC Leisure 2012 EWHC 108 (Ch) Lord Justice Kitchin has now accepted that the Defendant publicans communicated copyright works contained in foreign broadcasts of Premier League matches to the public, following the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruling to that effect in October 2011
The “innocent” copying defence: only applicable to works out of copyright
- McDermott Will & Emery
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- United Kingdom
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- March 30 2012
In David Hoffman v Drug Abuse Resistance Education (UK) Ltd 2012 EWPCC 2, the Patents County Court of England and Wales assessed the use of the “innocent copying” defence under Section 97 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988
Composite marks: identity, similarity and likelihood of confusion
- McDermott Will & Emery
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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”
UK Patents County Court finds copyright subsists in digitally manipulated photograph
- McDermott Will & Emery
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- United Kingdom
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- February 29 2012
In Temple Island Collections Ltd v New English Teas Ltd 2012 EWPCC 1 (12 January 2012), Judge Birss QC found that an image belonging to New English Teas infringed the copyright subsisting in a digitally manipulated photograph of a London scene created by Temple Island Collections
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
High burden of proof where concerted copying is alleged
- McDermott Will & Emery
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- United Kingdom
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- November 29 2011
In Pro-Tec Covers Ltd v Specialised Covers Ltd 2011 EWPCC 23, Richard Meade QC, sitting in the Patents County Court, has provided a detailed judgment on an unregistered design right infringement dispute, in which Pro-Tec had alleged that Specialised had undertaken “a concerted campaign of copying by at least four people, followed by a concerted campaign of lying about it and covering it up”
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
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
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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