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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
Registered community designs can infringe earlier registered community designs
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- European Union
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- March 30 2012
The Court of Justice of the European Union has clarified the interpretation of the term “any third party” in Article 19(1) of the Community Designs Regulation (62002EC) in its decision in Case C-48810 Celaya Emparanza y Galdos Internacional SA (Cegasa) v Proyectos Integrales de Balizamiento SL
Advocate general considers jurisdiction for claims of infringement of a national trade mark online
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- European Union
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- March 30 2012
In Wintersteiger AG v Products 4U Sondermaschinenbau GmbH C-52310 (Opinion of Advocate General) 16 February 2012, Advocate General Pedro Cruz Villalón considered that the proprietor of a national trade mark may be able to bring an infringement action in the Member State of registration against a third party that has registered a keyword used on a national search engine that is identical to the mark
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 protection of football fixture lists under the EU Database Directive
- McDermott Will & Emery
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- European Union
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- March 30 2012
On 1 March 2012, the Court of Justice of the European Union passed judgement on Football Dataco Ltd v Yahoo! UK Ltd 2012 CJEU C-60410, concluding that the football fixture lists in question are not protected by copyright as there is insufficient intellectual creation on the part of the author
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
CJEU rules on copyright protection of photographic portraits
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- European Union
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- February 29 2012
In Case C-14510 Eva-Maria Painer v Standard Verlags GmbH 1 December 2011, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) held that portrait photographs enjoy the same copyright protection as any other work
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