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'Let it Be' - Apple Corps Ltd Contest Use of BEATLE
The General Court has recently issued its judgment in the case of the objection by Apple Corps Ltd against an application to register BEATLE for a range of goods in Class 12 limited primarily to wheelchairs and other transport to assist the disabled and those with handicaps. The question for… -
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AdWords: Wintersteiger v Products 4U Sondermaschinenbau
This case from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) considers a jurisdictional issue in relation to the alleged infringement of a national trade mark by use of a sign identical to the mark as an AdWord. In particular, the CJEU looked at the interpretation of the phrase… -
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ICANN Publishes New gTLD Application Details
Following our previous updates on the new gTLD program, ICANN has today published details of applications for new gTLDs. ICANN received over 1,900 applications from around the world, and says that this marks the next phase in one of the most significant developments in the history of the Internet. -
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ONEL v OMEL Genuine Use of a CTM in the Community
The Advocate General (AG) has issued his opinion in the much anticipated ONEL case on the territorial extent of use required to constitute 'genuine use' of a Community trade mark (CTM) in the Community. -
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Patent Newsletter No.29
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Software: To Open Source, or Not to Open Source?
With at least half a million open source software (OSS) projects in the world1, OSS represents a significant aspect of contemporary software development. However, although there are advantages to be had from both using and releasing OSS, there are a number of issues to be kept in mind for the… -
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Website and Email Prior Art: What's Publicly Available?
Under Article 54(2) EPC the state of the art comprises everything made available to the public by means of a written or oral description, by use, or in any other way, before the filing of a European patent application. -
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Patent Box Strategies to Accelerate UK Granted Patent
The Patent Box places a potentially extremely high financial value on a granted UK patent (see notes 1 & 2 below), whereas a pending patent application has no value under the scheme. The race for getting granted UK patents is therefore now on. For UK manufacturing companies, profits arising from… -
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Court of Appeal: Apple v Samsung tablet computer wars
In the UK component of the attempt by Apple Inc. to enforce a Registered Community Design (RCD) against a competing tablet computer produced by Samsung, a preliminary procedural point has been appealed to the UK Court of Appeal and has been decided in favour of Samsung Electronics (UK) Ltd. in… -
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Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprngli v OHIM
The Court of Justice has today confirmed that the Lindt’s attempt to appeal the decision to refuse the registration of the shape of their chocolate bunnies has been unsuccessful.
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