Yves Saint Laurent bags registered Community designs

Posted on 03 November 2015

The General Court (GC) has declared two Yves Saint Laurent (YSL) registered Community designs (RCDs) for handbags valid in reaching the conclusion that invalidation actions brought by H&M were unfounded.

Richard Burton

Partner, Trade Mark Attorney

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Trade Mark Newsletter No.83

Posted on 01 November 2015

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Petco: GC decision on suspension of appeal proceedings

Posted on 28 October 2015

The General Court decision in Petco Animal Supplies Stores Inc v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) (case T-664/13) revolved around the issue of manipulating the opposition timetable and the relationship between concurrent opposition proceedings and applications for a declaration of invalidity in relation to the earlier mark.

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SPC notification rules

Posted on 08 October 2015

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJ) has now decided on the issue of how to calculate the correct expiry date of a supplementary protection certificate (SPC). SPCs are granted in the European Union (EU) for medicinal and plant protection products which require a marketing authorisation by a…

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IP survey results - UK businesses in the IP spotlight

Posted on 05 October 2015

For a number of years now we have been working in collaboration with the magazines New Electronics and Eureka to increase the level of understanding of what IP is and how it can be valuable to businesses. In support of this initiative we have been running IP surveys inviting the…

Anthony Albutt

Partner, Patent Attorney

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Poisonous divisionals (G1/15)

Posted on 05 October 2015

In our April 2015 edition of this newsletter we discussed the concept of multiple priorities and how, based on a strict interpretation of comments made in decision G2/98 concerning priority, the situation has arisen whereby a patent can be found invalid with respect to the disclosure of its own priority…

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Second medical use claims and skinny labels

Posted on 05 October 2015

We have previously reported several decisions of the UK Patents Court and Court of Appeal in relation to Warner-Lambert's action against Actavis (and others), concerning whether Warner-Lambert's second medical use patent for pregabalin was infringed by Actavis selling the drug with a 'skinny label' not referring to the patented medical…

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