Archive for August, 2007
Serra y Roca SA applied to register the mark ‘Cor’ as a Community Trade Mark (CTM) for scouring products, soap and essential oils. Hengel KgaA opposed the mark as it owned the mark in ‘Dor’ in...
CFI says that ‘lokthread’ mark is descriptive of ‘lock threading bolt’- MacLean-Fogg v OHIM, European Court of First Instance
MacLean-Fogg applied to register the trade mark ‘lokthread’ as a European Community Mark (CTM) for certain type of nuts and bolts products. The Office for the Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM)...
High Court refuses to allow registration of mouse-on-wheels trade mark as it affects distinctiveness of competitor’s telephone-on-wheels trade mark – Direct Line Insurance v esure Insurance, High Court
esure Insurance Limited (esure) applied to register the shape and appearance of a computer mouse on wheels as a trade mark in class 36 (financial services). Direct Line Insurance Plc (Direct Line) opposed...
ICSTIS fines Eckoh for breaching its code in Richard and Judy competitions
The Independent Committee for the Supervision of Standards of the Telephone Information Services (ICSTIS) - the body that regulates premium rate charged services in the telecommunications sector - has...
New ASA chairman to tackle misleading claims of Internet advertisers
The new Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) chairman, Lord Chris Smith, has said that he wants to deal with misleading claims in Internet ads. The ASA - the UK advertising regulator - has a remit over...
OFT threatens to ground travel companies who issue misleading price info on the Internet
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has threatened travel companies and airlines with High Court action if they continue to mislead customers over prices of tickets online. The problem that OFT has with online...
London gets free Wi-Fi
London is to get a free Wi-Fi network thanks to the free-hotspot.com Group and MeshHooper, the Wi-Fi network infrastructure, company joining forces. They will together offer free Wi-Fi access across a...
Two IT bully boys (SAP and Oracle) get into schoolyard fight over enterprise software secrets
Just when you thought that their rivalry could not get any more bitter, IT giants SAP and Oracle have clashed again over another legal issue...this time involving industrial espionage. Oracle has recently...
New version of GPL open-source software licence issued
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has issued version 3 of the GNU General Public Licence (GPL). The Free Software Foundation is a US not-for-profit organisation aimed at promoting free use of software....
IBM generously hands over IP to everyone to help people use its software
IBM has decided to grant ‘universal and perpetual access’ to the intellectual property related to more than 150 of its open standards. Open standards are technical agreements that help software writers...