Keyword advertising (in particular Google AdWords) and trade marks is an ‘evergreen’ topic and one of this Kat’s guilty trade mark pleasures. While we are still awaiting the ECJ decision in the Interflora case, we recently had the first German de…

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Without the facts, the IPKat isn’t even sure
if this is the right Wintersteiger
Now here’s a good IP question or two for the Court of Justice of the European Union — it’s coming up in Case C-523/10 Wintersteiger [courtesy of the UK Intellectua…

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Google and LVMH are back in court this week over the use of trademarked terms in when used in adwords. Google’s current stance in the UK is that trademarked terms can be utilised as a search term to generate the display of competitors’ adverts, but cannot be used within the text of the advert itself. [...]

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