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Features - April 2010
Toy car claim goes into reverse
The first civil law senate of the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH), being inter alia responsible for trademark law, has handed down the following decision: the manufacturer of a motor car may, based on his...
Russia Q&A: Trademark Protection
Q1. What conventions, Multilateral or Bilateral agreements are pertinent to the protection of trade identities in your jurisdiction? At present, Russia is a signatory and party as to the following agreements pertinent to...
Searching to avoid disaster
Suppose a company spends considerable capital to develop a new product – a product it believes will bolster its bottom line and be highly desired by consumers in both domestic and international markets. The...
Case Comment - April 2010
Slogan registration steps up a gear
It is often said that, whilst slogans are not excluded from trademark protection, in practice, it is more difficult to register one as a trademark than it is for any other word-mark combination. However, while the reported...
Infringement is a luxury eBay can’t afford
Recently eBay’s business model has encountered legal opposition in France in relation to trademark rights. The number of proceedings against eBay is small, but Louis Vuitton can be considered as leading the select band of...
What’s my name?
In Hotel Cipriani SRL and others v Cipriani (Grosvenor Street) Ltd and others [2010] EWCA Civ 110, the Court of Appeal upheld the High Court’s decision that the defendants had infringed the claimants’ trademark and...
News - April 2010
Introducing INTA
INTA’s Annual Meeting is the trademark community’s most eagerly awaited event, bringing together practitioners from across four continents. Valuable skill-building workshops, industry breakouts, interactive table...
EU Court makes first decision on registered designs against Pepsi
EUROPE – The European General Court has handed down its first decision in a Registered Community Design case, ruling that PepsiCo’s pogs are not distinct enough to warrant protection. Pogs are small, branded toy...
Correction
In the March issue of Trademark World , we ran an article called Clearing Brands in Europe by Eesheta Shah. We gave an incorrect firm name in the article byline and would like to clarify that the author works for Nabarro. The...
People Watch - April 2010
Benoît Battistelli elected next EPO president
EUROPE – The Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation, meeting in Munich on 1 March 2010, elected Benoît Battistelli to succeed Alison Brimelow as president of the European Patent Office. ...
IP partner joins Latham & Watkins in Washington DC
UNITED STATES – Matthew Moore has joined Latham & Watkins as a partner in the firms Washington DC IP litigation department. He joins the firm from Howrey in Washington, DC. Moore received a law degree and bachelors in...
Dwayne Mason joins Greenberg Traurig
UNITED STATES – IP attorney Dwayne Mason has joined international law firm Greenberg Traurig in Houston as Head of the Texas IP Litigation Group. Mason was previously at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld where he was a...
