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Are you a budding plant varieties lawyer? If so, read on …

January 14th, 2011 · No Comments

Lacking opposable thumbs, Kitty always
had trouble with her flower-arrangements
Don’t mock plants. They are just as profitable as other intellectual property subject-matter if you can deploy your skills correctly, and they can be exciting to litigat…

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Tags: Copyright · Design rights · Trade marks

Wintersteiger 3: the legal grounds

January 10th, 2011 · No Comments

AdWords, trade marks and adjacent European Union Member States linked by a common language — are these not the ingredients of a first-rate piece of litigation? Of course they are, which is why the IPKat posted two items on a trade mark dispute th…

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Tags: Copyright · Design rights · Trade marks

Wintersteiger 1: the facts

January 4th, 2011 · No Comments

I don’t mind the skiing, said Fritz,
but I don’t see why I have a do it
while dressed in a tea-cosy
The IPKat posted a note last week on Case C-523/10 Wintersteiger, which posed some interesting-looking questions concerning choice of jurisdiction in …

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Tags: Copyright · Design rights · Trade marks

The Princess and the Personal Name: a reader comments

January 3rd, 2011 · No Comments

“Here comes that
Landeshauptmann :
now where shall
I hide my title?”
In “A tale for our time: Princess Ilonka and the Landeshauptmann” (here), the IPKat reviewed in fairly critical terms the litigation in which the Court of Justice o…

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Tags: Copyright · Design rights · Trade marks

A tale for our time: Princess Ilonka and the Landeshauptmann

December 30th, 2010 · No Comments

Until very recently the IPKat had never heard of Ilonka Sayn-Wittgenstein.  Now he thinks she’s heading to be a household name, either as described above or, as she would prefer it, as Ilonka Fürstin von Sayn-Wittgenstein.  The lon…

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Tags: Copyright · Design rights · Trade marks

Trade marks, AdWords and the location of harmful events: some brain-teasers

December 29th, 2010 · No Comments

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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Tags: Copyright · Design rights · Trade marks

L’Oréal v eBay: what the Advocate General says

December 9th, 2010 · No Comments

On 22 May 2009 Mr Justice Arnold told us that he was referring a number of questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union for a preliminary reference in one of the most exciting and potentially important trade mark law disputes to be heard in …

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Tags: Copyright · Design rights · Trade marks