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IMJ asked Áine Matthews a solicitor with LK Shields Solicitors - and an expert on both contentious and non-contentious aspects of intellectual property including protection of trade marks, goodwill, patents, copyright, designs and domain names - to offer advice on 'ideas walking out the door' when employees are let go
Earlier this week, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the "ECJ") ruled that the operation of the AdWords system by Google in itself was not a breach of EU trade mark law, but that the content of some advertisements that are linked by Google keywords may well be in breach depending upon the particular facts of the case
Shoppers and retailers are familiar with lookalike products in shops and with branded products being sold at reduced prices at discount retail outlets or market stalls
Shoppers are used to seeing lookalike products on supermarket shelves, but how do the manufacturers get away with producing and selling such blatant imitations?
