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European Court of Justice delivers judgment on the meaning of “unfair advantage”

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • August 31 2009

The European Court of Justice has handed down a landmark judgment having implications as to the concept of brand and protectable trademarks in a case concerning the importation and distribution in the UK of perfumes that looked and smelled similar to L’Oréal’s fragrances

English court makes history for UK employee inventors

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
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  • July 6 2009

For the first time, the English High Court has awarded compensation to employee inventors in recognition of their efforts in inventing a patented product

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