News & Insights (Consumer Products)

14-May-2012  |  Consumer Brands, Copyright & Media Law, IT & Telecoms, Technology, Media & Telecoms

Public Interest (Reynolds) Privilege

We have a fresh batch of content on our Taylor Wessing Download site which provides insights into the legal implications of the ...

18-Apr-2012  |  Consumer Brands, IT & Telecoms, Technology, Media & Telecoms, Trade Marks & Designs

gTLDs list to be published - who's in and who's not?

The domain name world has undertaken a radical experiment in the last three months. During that time, companies have been able to ...

02-Apr-2012  |  Consumer Brands, Copyright & Media Law, IT & Telecoms, Technology, Media & Telecoms

Cookies - preparing for compliance

We have a fresh batch of content on our Taylor Wessing Download site which provides insights into the legal implications of the ...

05-Mar-2012  |  Consumer Brands, Copyright & Media Law, IT & Telecoms, Technology, Media & Telecoms

Patents in mobile devices

We have a fresh batch of content on our Taylor Wessing Download site which provides insights into the legal implications of the ...

06-Feb-2012  |  Consumer Brands, Copyright & Media Law, IT & Telecoms, Technology, Media & Telecoms

Preparing for 2012

We have a fresh batch of content on our Taylor Wessing Download site which provides insights into the legal implications of the ...

01-Feb-2012  |  Consumer Brands, Copyright & Media Law, Trade Marks & Designs

Brands Update - February 2012

This issue of Brands Update contains recent important cases from the UK and Community tribunals on registrability of trade marks ...

08-Nov-2011  |  Competition, EU and Trade, Consumer Brands, Copyright & Media Law, IT & Telecoms, Technology, Media & Telecoms

Radar: Technology & Communications Update - November 2011

This month’s issue covers two interesting CJEU judgments which are particularly relevant to online publishers, as well as ...

28-Sep-2011  |  Consumer Brands, Technology, Media & Telecoms, Trade Marks & Designs

European Court delivers more Google keywords guidance, but the key question remains: are these just M&S - or Interflora - flowers?

The European Court has delivered its judgment in the Interflora v. Marks & Spencer case.  Following a series of earlier ...

29-Jul-2011  |  Consumer Brands, Copyright & Media Law, Trade Marks & Designs

Brands Update - July 2011

The Summer issue of Brands Update contains recent important cases from the UK and Community tribunals on registrability of trade ...

12-Jul-2011  |  Consumer Brands, Trade Marks & Designs

L'Oréal v eBay – the latest on keywords, testers, exhaustion of rights and ISP liability

Today, the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) has delivered an interesting ruling in the case of L’Oréal v eBay which should ...

05-Jul-2011  |  Consumer Brands, IT & Telecoms, Technology, Media & Telecoms, Trade Marks & Designs

Radar: Technology & Communications Update July 2011

This month has seen a major change to availability of domain name suffixes and some interesting developments in Europe. You ...

06-Apr-2011  |  Consumer Brands, Trade Marks & Designs

Brands Update - April 2011

Welcome to the April edition of Brands Update. In this issue we look at: Hot off the press: Advocate General says it ...

18-Feb-2011  |  Consumer Brands

The Product Placement Soap to Premiere on UK TV on 28 February 2011

Product placement is where an advertiser pays a programme producer or a broadcaster to have their product, service or logo appear ...

03-Feb-2011  |  Consumer Brands, IT & Telecoms, Technology, Media & Telecoms

Radar: Technology & Communications Update - February 2011

Welcome to 'Radar', Taylor Wessing’s update on developments in technology and communications law. Radar covers a wide range of ...

25-Nov-2010  |  Competition, EU and Trade, Consumer Brands, Technology, Media & Telecoms

Outright bans of internet sales, selective distribution, and competition law

Internet sales still constitute one of the biggest commercial challenges to owners of luxury and specialist brands, and the key ...

06-Sep-2010  |  Consumer Brands, Trade Marks & Designs

Google revises its keywords policy

Following recent caselaw, Google has announced that it intends to make two significant revisions to its adwords policy. The ...

11-Jun-2010  |  Consumer Brands, Trade Marks & Designs

European Court rules on unauthorised re-sale of "tester" perfume bottles

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that the supply to a third party of branded "tester" goods ...

10-Jun-2010  |  Consumer Brands, Trade Marks & Designs

Can a lawful product be called a 'Nasty'?

Last week, the Court of Appeal gave a ruling highlighting the risk of using emotive language to describe third party products. ...

20-May-2010  |  Consumer Brands, Life Sciences & Healthcare, Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Patents

Protecting the Crown Jewels

This article looks at some of the main IP risks associated with outsourcing product development and manufacture, and sets out ...

22-Feb-2010  |  Consumer Brands, Copyright & Media Law, Trade Marks & Designs

Product placement is unbanned, well almost - with exceptions

The UK government has formally reversed its previously announced ban and will join the rest of the EU (other than Denmark) and ...

08-Feb-2010  |  Consumer Brands, Corporate

The London Stock Exchange's new retail bond market – reshaping corporate finance?

On Monday 1 February, the London Stock Exchange (LSE) launched its long-awaited Electronic Order Book for Retail Bonds (ORB). In ...

17-Dec-2008  |  Consumer Brands, Copyright & Media Law, Trade Marks & Designs

Is the ECJ "diluting" brand owners' rights?

In response to a reference from the English Court of Appeal, led by Jacob L.J., the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has given its ...

22-May-2008  |  Banking & Finance, Commercial Agreements, Competition, EU and Trade, Construction & Engineering, Consumer Brands, Copyright & Media Law, Corporate, Employment & Pensions, Energy & Environment, Financial Institutions & Services, Life Sciences & Healthcare, Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Logistics & Transport, Projects, Real Estate, Restructuring & Corporate Recovery, Tax, Technology, Media & Telecoms

"All change please!" - Sweeping new UK legislation on unfair commercial practices comes into force on 26 May 2008

Criminal liability for unfair business-to-consumer ('B2C') commercial practices and misleading business-to-busines ('B2B') ...