Another day, another AdWord ruling, it seems. The Court of Justice of the European Union gave its ruling this morning in Case C‑558/08 Portakabin Ltd and Portakabin BV v Primakabin BV, a reference for a preliminary ruling from the Hoge Raad der Nede…

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No case with number can be found on the Curia website, but if you visit the website of the UK’s Intellectual Property Office you will find here a notice regarding Case C-228/10 Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and British Sky Broadcasting…

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Supplementary protection certificates (SPCs) for pharmaceutical patents don’t get much column space on this weblog, mainly because it is a reputedly nerdish subject that only SPC addicts are interested in and, more importantly, because there is already…

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It’s definitely the season for referring intellectual property questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union for preliminary rulings. Only yesterday the IPKat reported on Case C-207/10 Paranova Danmark A/S, Paranova Pack A/S v Merck Sharp &a…

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People who complain about the European Union often grumble about its large and expensive bureaucracy. One thing it doesn’t have is an official Department of Déjà Vu. Fortunately it doesn’t need one since the national courts of Member States, in combi…

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