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Indirect shareholder contributions in conjunction with corporate reorganisations handle with care!

  • Schoenherr
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  • Austria, European Union
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  • May 6 2013

Considering the rather strict view taken by the Austrian tax courts in recent deci-sions regarding capital contribution tax on indirect shareholder

Bad-faith bunnies: Case C-52907 Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli AG v Franz Hauswirth GmbH (11 June 2009)

  • Squire Sanders
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  • Austria, European Union
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  • September 14 2009

This was a referral to the ECJ arising from a dispute about chocolate Easter bunnies

Keywords: either court of State of trade mark registration or that of advertiser's domicile can have jurisdiction says CJEU

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Austria, European Union
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  • April 24 2012

The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled on the appropriate jurisdiction for proceedings brought by a trade mark owner for alleged trade mark infringement arising from the reservation of keywords by a competitor on an internet search engine

The endless bunny hunt: Court of Justice of the European Union rules on trademark protection for shape of chocolate bunnies

  • Jones Day
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  • Austria, European Union, Germany
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  • July 12 2012

With its recent Lindt & Sprüngli decision, the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") confirmed its earlier decisions that tighten the threshold for the inherent distinctiveness of three-dimensional trademarks

La CGUE si pronuncia sul compenso per la trasmissione di brevi estratti di cronaca

  • Callegari & Martini Avvocati
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  • Austria, European Union, Italy
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  • January 30 2013

Con sentenza dello scorso 22 gennaio la Corte di Giustizia dell'Unione Europea ("CGUE") si è pronunciata nella causa C-28311 tra il

ECJ rules that reputation in one EU member state may constitute “reputation in the Community”

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • Austria, European Union
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  • December 31 2009

In a reference from the Austrian Supreme Court, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that for the purposes of Article 9(1)(c) of the Community Trademark Regulation (4094EC), reputation in a single member state of the European Community may be considered to constitute a substantial part of the territory of the Community

CJ remarkably willing to fully harmonise EU copyright law

  • De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
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  • Austria, European Union
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  • December 2 2011

On 1 December 2011, the European Court of Justice ("CJ") rendered its decision in Eva-Maria Painer v. Standard Verlags GmbH et al

Advocate General's opinion regarding application of principle of effectiveness to access to documents in damages action

  • Roschier
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  • Austria, European Union
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  • February 13 2013

Advocate General Jääskinen ("AG") gave an opinion on a reference for a preliminary ruling from the Austrian Cartel Court on whether a

Bad faith and bad bunnies

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • Austria, European Union
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  • July 3 2009

In a reference from the Austrian Supreme Court, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled on the meaning of bad faith in Article 51(1)(b) of the Community Trade Mark Regulation (4094EEC

Dismissal of women undergoing IVF treatment can be sex discrimination

  • Kennedys
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  • Austria, European Union, United Kingdom
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  • March 4 2008

In a decision that has ramifications for the dismissal of women in the UK, in Mäyr v Backerei under Konditorei Gerhard Flöckner, the European Court of Justice ("ECJ") has held that the dismissal of a woman who is at an advanced stage of in vitro fertilisation treatment, where the ova have been fertilised but not yet transferred to the uterus, will be discrimination on the grounds of sex if the dismissal is related to this in vitro treatment