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European news April-June 2010

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union
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  • August 11 2010

US and EC regulators have conditionally cleared Cisco’s acquisition of Norwegian video-conferencing company Tandberg in a deal valued at $3.4 billion

European Commission: published responses to report on online retailing of music and goods

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union
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  • October 16 2009

The European Commission has published the contributions from interested parties in response to the Online Commerce Roundtable Report on opportunities and barriers to online retailing

EC report on US trade barriers

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union, USA
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  • October 16 2009

The European Commission has produced a report on US trade and investment barriers said to prevent EU exporters from drawing effectively on the full potential of EU-US trade relations

European Parliament adopts amended Roaming Regulation

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union
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  • July 20 2009

The European Parliament has voted to adopt amendments to the Roaming Regulation (7172007EC

European Commission proposals for codifying Audio-Visual Media Services Directive

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union
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  • July 20 2009

The European Commission has published a proposal to codify the Audio-Visual Media Services Directive (89552EEC) (AVMS Directive), formerly known as the Television Without Frontiers Directive, which was subsequently amended by two further Directives, 9736EC and 200765EC

Reported TM cases

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union
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  • June 30 2009

The ECJ dismissed the appeal by Waterford Wedgewood against the CFI’s decision that that there was no likelihood of confusion under Article 8(1)(b) between the marks

Scope of protection of state emblems

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union
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  • June 30 2009

The AG recommended that the ECJ set aside the CFI’s judgment in this case in so far as it held that Article 7(1)(h), in conjunction with Article 6ter of the Paris Convention, did not apply to service marks

Personal names

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union
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  • June 30 2009

Elio Fiorucci was a fashion designer who achieved certain renown in the 1970s in Italy

Restitutio in integrum: time-limits

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union
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  • June 30 2009

On 24 August 2004, Aurelia Finance SA (the “Applicant”) was granted a CTM for the word mark AURELIA for various services in Class 36

Protected designation of originprotected geographical indication

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union
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  • June 30 2009

The region of Emilia-Romagna in Italy imposed a penalty on Cavazzuti SpA, now Grandi Salumifici Italiani SpA (“GSI”), for using the name SALAME TIPO FELINO (in English, ‘Felino-type Salami’) on the label of its salami sausage in a way that was misleading to customers, thus infringing Article 2 of Directive 200013 relating to labelling, presentation and advertising of foodstuffs (as transposed into national law in Italy