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Brands Update - February 2012

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

Application for ‘TDI’—Audi's arguments fail to impress

Audi and Volkswagen v OHIM Case T-318/09, General Court, 6 July 2011 The General Court rejected Audi's application to register ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Dangerous" Intellectual Property Myths

Most people these days have heard of intellectual property (or at least copyright).  Whilst the general public's awareness ...

Google revises its keywords policy

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

Court holds that Euro-defence to grey import action is arguable

Oracle America (formerly Sun Microsystems) v M-Tech [2010] EWCA Civ 997 In a potential set-back for brand owners, the English ...

Brands Update - Summer 2010

Brands Update containing the latest cases from the UK and Community tribunals on registrability and infringement.

Rights not always exhausted?

In the latest European judgment on the validity of keyword advertising, the Court of Justice of the European Union ...

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 ...

The significance of Europe's ruling on Google ads and trademarks

The European Court of Justice’s recent ruling in Google v Louis Vuitton Malletier SA has been hailed a major legal victory for ...

ECJ upholds Google AdWords - but leaves door open for brand owner challenges

In a hotly anticipated judgment, the European Court of Justice ("ECJ") yesterday broadly upheld the Google AdWords ...

Twitter announces new brand protection tools (World Trademark Review)

Timothy Pinto and Damian Simpson discuss Twitter's plans to provide companies with new brand protection tools and marketing data ...

AM Law Daily quotes Jason Rawkins on Google's liability for Adwords program

Brand owners "smell" success

Taylor Wessing launches its second Global Intellectual Property Index

With the value of many tangible assets, in particular real estate, falling in the current economic climate, there's a growing ...

Reputation in the European Community

Appellations of origin defeat CTM application for BUD

Advocate General "winks at" Unfair Advantage L'Oreal SA et. al. v. Bellure NV et. al.

In response to a reference from the English Court of Appeal, the Advocate General (AG) has given his Opinion on the type of ...

New Fast Track Trade Mark for the UK

Brands Update - December 2008

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 ...

Brands Update - October 2008

Brands newsflash - Two important decisions from the English Court of Appeal

Brands Appeal cases L'Oréal v Bellure and Proctor & Gamble v Reckitt Benckiser In two significant recent ...