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Question on web browsing and copyright infringement referred to CJEU

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • Belarus, United Kingdom
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  • April 30 2013

On 17 April 2013, the Supreme Court of England and Wales provisionally held in Public Relations Consultants Association Ltd v The Newspaper Licensing

High Court rules no proprietary interest in e-mail content

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
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  • December 6 2012

In Fairstar Heavy Transport NV v Adkins and Another 2012 EWHC 2952 (TCC) the High Court of England and Wales held that there is no proprietary interest in the content of e-mails

Appeal against exclusion from patentability of software to protect minors online allowed

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 12 2012

In relation to the application by Protecting Kids the World Over (PKTWO) 2011 EWHC 2720 (Pat), the High Court of England and Wales has allowed an appeal against a decision of a Hearing Officer that found that an alarm notification system for monitoring inappropriate electronic communications fell within the computer program exclusion

Nominet decisions may be subject to appeal to the High Court

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
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  • November 29 2011

In Michael Toth v Emirates 2011 EWPCC 18, his Honour Judge Birss QC, refused to strike out an application seeking to overturn a decision of a Nominet appeal panel that the registration of a domain name was abusive within the Nominet Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) Policy

Further CJEU guidance on keyword advertising and trade mark infringement

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • November 3 2011

In (1) Interflora Inc. (2) Interflora British Unit v (1) Marks & Spencer plc (2) Flowers Direct Online Ltd, Case C-32309 (22 September 2011), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has provided further guidance on circumstances in which use of a registered trade mark as a keyword by a third party advertiser may constitute trade mark infringement

Non-UK website infringement of UK trade marks

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 31 2011

In Yell Ltd v Louis Giboin 2011 EWPCC 9 the Patents County Court found that use of the word mark TRANSPORT YELLOW PAGES and the “walking fingers” logo on a non-UK website infringed Yell Ltd’s well-known registered trade marks in the United Kingdom

Lifestyle Management Ltd v Frater: domain names and instruments of fraud

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 28 2011

Pointing domain names, which are similar to a former principal's website, to websites that closely resembled the home page of the former principal has been found to be an act of passing off

The Newspaper Licensing Agency Ltd v Meltwater Holding BV: online commercial media monitoring services and the end user licence debate

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 25 2011

This ruling from Mrs Justice Proudman confirms that businesses using an online commercial media monitoring service require a licence from the Newspaper Licensing Agency Ltd

Online infringement of copyright cost sharing: UK government decision

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
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  • November 4 2010

The Digital Economy Act (DEA) created an anti-piracy notification scheme allowing copyright holders to report suspected infringers to their Internet Service Providers (ISPs

Transport for London: domain name use and genuine use

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
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  • June 30 2010

In BL O-126-10 Transport for London (tfl and TFL) (Appeal to the Appointed Person) 23 April 2010, Edward Smith, sitting as the Appointed Person, rejected Transport for London's opposition to an application by Jason Wright to register "tfl" (in lower case) as a trade mark for search engine and domain name management services in Classes 42 and 45