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April 2013 Intellectual Property Quarterly Newsletter

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • China, European Union, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom, USA
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  • April 25 2013

In this edition, we continue our coverage of significant IP developments in Europe, Asia, and the United States

IP Snapshot April 2012

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
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  • European Union, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom
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  • April 27 2012

Bringing you regular news of key developments in intellectual property law

Board rules on confusingly similar device marks based on copyright protection

  • Jacobacci & Partners
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  • European Union, Italy
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  • March 10 2010

On 21st December 2004 Italian company Guccio Gucci SpA started invalidity proceedings (R17572007-2) against Community Trademark Registration 2357671 G GLITZY (device), held by José Alba Fernàndez

SIAE labels against counterfeit CDs: is Italy facing the end of an era?

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union, Italy
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  • January 31 2008

Italian copyright law (Article 181 bis) prescribes that any medium put on sale or exchanged for profit, which contains computer programmes, multimedia works, sounds, voice, moving images, and generally protected works must bear a distinctive sign

Case C-23406 P-II Ponte Finanziaria SpA - minimum threshold of similarity between marks

  • Wragge & Co LLP
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  • European Union, Italy
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  • October 31 2007

The ECJ has lent support to the notion that there is a minimum threshold of similarity between marks that needs to be established before there is any need to consider the principle of interdependence as part of the likelihood of confusion assessment

Defensive trade mark series

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union, Italy
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  • October 30 2007

F.M.G. Textiles Srl (FMG) is an Italian company specialising in marine textiles and accessories

Italian winter sports firm fails to conquer NASDAQ

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • European Union, Italy
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  • August 21 2007

On 10 May the EU's second highest court, the Court of First Instance (DFI) rejected efforts by an Italian company, Antarctica, to register a Community trade mark containing the word "NASDAQ", on the basis that use of the mark would take unfair advantage of the repute of an earlier registered trade mark, for dissimilar goods and services