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ONEL: what constitutes genuine use of a Community Trade Mark?

  • Nabarro LLP
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  • European Union
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  • February 5 2013

On 19 December 2012, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) handed down its long-anticipated judgment in the ONELOMEL case. This

Copper cartel participant’s human rights appeal rejected by ECJ

  • Nabarro LLP
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  • European Union
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  • December 16 2011

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has rejected arguments by two participants in a copper cartel that the General Court infringed community law and their fundamental right to a fair trial by failing to carry out an adequate review of the Commission’s decision

Commission erroneously evaluated tender on the basis of bidders’ experience

  • Nabarro LLP
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  • European Union
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  • December 16 2011

The General Court (GC) has criticised the European Commission’s basing of the award of a contract on the criterion of the tenderers’ experience in breach of procurement rules which require experience to be assessed at the selection stage

ECJ confirms France Télécom received a selective advantage under the tax rules

  • Nabarro LLP
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  • European Union
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  • December 16 2011

The ECJ upheld the General Court’s decision that the special tax regime afforded to France Télécom (FT) between 1994 and 2002 constituted state aid

Fake goods in transit: carry on counterfeiting!

  • Nabarro LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • December 8 2011

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that fake goods arriving from outside the EU, supposedly en route to other non-EU countries, cannot be confiscated unless there is proof they are intended for sale in the EU

EU trade mark applicants must say what they mean clearly

  • Nabarro LLP
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  • European Union
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  • December 1 2011

A formal opinion issued today in the widely-followed IP Translator (C-30710) case puts a nail in the coffin of the “class heading” approach to filing Community (i.e. EU-wide) trade mark applications

Mixed bag of results from appeals against the plastic industrial sacks cartel decision

  • Nabarro LLP
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  • European Union
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  • December 1 2011

The General Court has annulled a 2.37m fine imposed on Stempher BV for its alleged role in an industrial bag cartel on the basis that the European Commission failed to prove its case within the five-year limitation period

Gibraltar’s tax advantages for offshore companies amount to state aid says the ECJ

  • Nabarro LLP
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  • European Union, Gibraltar
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  • December 1 2011

Gibraltar’s status as a tax haven has suffered a blow after the ECJ upheld a Commission decision that the proposed corporate tax reforms conferred material selective advantage on offshore companies

ECJ confirms that Italian tax reductions to newly-listed companies constitute illegal aid

  • Nabarro LLP
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  • European Union, Italy
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  • December 1 2011

The ECJ has confirmed on appeal (C-45809P) that an Italian aid scheme to grant tax reductions to newly-listed companies was unlawful

Bidder fails in challenge to the award of a contract by the ECJ

  • Nabarro LLP
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  • European Union
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  • December 1 2011

An IT service provider, Computer Task Group Luxembourg (CTG), has failed in its attempts to take the ECJ to task for alleged failures to comply with procurement rules in relation to contracts for its call centre