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Chianti Fails to Stop French Rugbys Rooster Mascot
Consorzio vino Chianti Classico (Chianti), the body responsible for promoting and protecting the Chianti Classico denomination, with their long established black rooster logo, has failed to stop Fédération Française de Rugby (FFR) from registering a Community trade mark (CTM) which predominantly consists of a rooster design. -
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Best Buy Fails to Prove Distinctiveness Through Use
Best Buy applied to register its trade marks BEST BUY and BEST BUY (Device, as shown below) in the UK. The applications were made for various services but this case specifically involves their interest in retail services (class 35). -
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Trade Mark Newsletter No.67
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UK to Broaden Clinical Trial Exemption to Infringement
The UK Government has just announced a proposal to change UK patent law to exempt clinical trials of innovative drugs, for both regulatory approval and health technology assessments, from patent infringement. This is welcome news for the pharmaceutical industry as it finally clarifies the scope of this exemption, and the… -
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Patenting for the Cloud - Challenges and Solutions
In this article we look at the challenges in securing IP that arises from the distributed nature of cloud computing technology. Specifically, we look at the situation where there is clear potential to fragment a cloud-based invention into stages which can be shared between servers that are in different countries… -
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Pharmaceutical Patenting
As the regulatory requirements to obtain marketing authorization of medicines become more stringent, the research required becomes ever longer and more costly; it can typically take 12-14 years and cost up to $1bn to bring a new drug from its initial discovery to the market. Patent protection is therefore critical… -
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Software rights - to share or to keep control?
In the United Kingdom, and in most countries, both the source code and object code of a computer program are automatically protected by copyright. -
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The Unitary Patent A Connected Europe?
Update 25 February 2013: On 19th February the Unified Patent Court Agreement was formally signed by the 24 participating Member States. This is a formal stage in the process towards the creation and implementation of the Unified (or Unitary) Patent system, although there are still a number of important details… -
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Reader Survey - Win a Bottle of Champagne!
We are proud to note that the next edition of our trade mark newsletter will be our 100th D Young & Co IP newsletter. -
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Has the EPO Reopened the Divisional Window?
The European Patent Office (EPO) recently issued a practice notice which could cause the window for filing divisional applications to be extended or reopened for some pending European patent (EP) applications. You may now be able to obtain European patent rights through a divisional application that were not possible before…
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