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Should more businesses obtain registered designs?

  • Barker Brettell LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • April 17 2013

Design can be fundamental to a product's success or failure in the marketplace. However, in the UK it seems that businesses are not obtaining as many

European Court of Justice: angry face constitutes individual character of community design

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • European Union
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  • January 31 2013

The European Court of Justice (CJEU) confirmed that the comparison of the overall impression conveyed by two opposing designs does not necessarily

IP snapshot - January 2013

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
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  • European Union
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  • January 25 2013

The CJEU has given its long-awaited and much-anticipated decision in the ONELOMEL case, which turned on the issue of the extent of geographical use

EPO practice: registered EU designs: an overview of a valuable tool to protect IP in Europe

  • Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
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  • European Union
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  • January 17 2013

As intellectual property (IP) continues to strengthen its position as one of the most valuable assets, and perhaps the most valuable asset, of

EU Commission launches consultation on protection of business and research know-how

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union
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  • January 9 2013

The European Commission has launched a public consultation on the protection of business and research know-how (the consultation) within the European

European Commission consults on merits of introducing EU trade secrets law

  • White & Black Legal LLP
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  • European Union
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  • January 3 2013

The European Commission ("Commission") has commenced an online consultation ("Consultation") to assess what impact the currently divergent national

The importance of design..

  • Howes Percival LLP
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  • European Union
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  • October 16 2012

Everybody knows that shoe design is big business

European Community designs protect industrial designs that may not be protected in the US and elsewhere

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • European Union, USA
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  • September 20 2012

European Council Regulation no. 62002 on community designs came into force on 6th March 2002, and provides design protection for types of industrial designs which might not necessarily be protectable in other jurisdictions, such as the US

UK Government issues consultation on design law reform

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • August 6 2012

The Intellectual Property Office has published a consultation paper putting forward proposals for an important set of reforms in the laws governing design rights in the UK

European Commission addresses growing problem of trade secrets misuse

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • European Union
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  • July 20 2012

As much as 75 of most organizations' value now lies in their intangible assets, IP and proprietary information