Art Attack
It was reported in yesterday's Telegraph (7/7/11), under "Now the EU wrecks Britain's art market" that sellers of works of art by European artists who have died in the past 70 years will need to pay royalties...
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RSSNational courts can make Community Trade Mark rulings that have effect in other EU countries – DHL v Chronopost, European Court of Justice
European Community Trade Marks can be ruled upon in one Member State of the European Union and those judgments should be binding on the parties’ activities in other Member States. This was a ruling from...
Numbers can be registered as trade marks but hard hurdle of distinctiveness to overcome – Agencja Widawnicza Technopol v OHIM, European Court of Justice
The European Court of Justice has ruled that numbers can be registered as trade marks in the European Union. However, they would need to be shown to be distinctive and not descriptive. They were ruling...
Israel’s data protection laws ‘adequate’ for data export from EU
Israel’s data protection laws have been deemed to be ‘adequate’, according to the European Commission. Under the European Union’s Data Protection Directive, unless a country’s data protection...
ECJ advised that pubs allowed to show Premier League football from foreign broadcasters
Juliane Kokott, one of the eight Advocates General to the European Court of Justice (ECJ), has given her opinion that pubs are not prohibited from showing live Premier League football from foreign broadcasters...
European Court offers seasonal cheer to many chocolate reindeer makers – Lindt v OHIM, General Court of the European Union
Many chocolate makers across Europe will be breathing a huge sigh of relief as the General Court of the European Union has upheld the decision of the European Community Trade Mark Office (OHIM) not to...
Remedies for Infringement of UK and EU Registered Designs to be harmonised
The UK’s Intellectual Property Office – the body in charge of maintaining the registers of intellectual property rights in the UK – is consulting on harmonising the effects of infringing registered...
European Commission launches another consultation – this time on the reasons for not having more e-commerce trade
The European Commission has launched its latest consultation. This time, it is asking all interested parties – including retailers, governments and consumers – for the reasons why e-commerce trade...
Microsoft compliance with EU competition law ruling sees use of rival browsers increase, but some complain of still being marginalised
Opera has revealed that the number of downloads for its browser software has increased threefold since Microsoft has included access to their products for people who had previously only had Microsoft’s...
