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  PASSIONATELY SWISS is Geographically Descriptive��

  Posted on 19 December 2011
  On 15 December 2011, the General Court of the EU (the ‘Court’) released its judgment in the Mövenpick Holding v OHIM case.
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  Refusal of Frosted Bottle Mark: Freixenet SA

  Posted on 06 December 2011
  Refusal of Frosted Bottle Mark - Freixenet v OHIM & CJEU: Joined Cases C-344/10 and C-345/10.
  

  Richard Burton

  Partner, Trade Mark Attorney
• IP Cases & Articles

  Industrial Application: Human Genome v Eli Lilly

  Posted on 01 December 2011
  The new UK Supreme Court has made its first decision in a patent case. Human Genome Sciences (HGS) applied for patent EP0939894 (‘the patent’) in 1996. The patent in question identified a gene sequence coding for a human protein named neutrokine-α, along with the tissue distribution, expression information and antibodies…
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  Patent Newsletter No.26

  Posted on 01 December 2011
• IP Cases & Articles

  America Invents Act - A European Perspective

  Posted on 01 December 2011
  On 16 September 2011, President Obama signed into effect the America Invents Act (AIA). Over the course of the next 18 months, this act will introduce sweeping changes to how US patent applications are examined and to how disputes can be handled in the USA. As European patent attorneys, and…
  

  Doug Ealey

  Partner, Patent Attorney
• IP Cases & Articles

  CJEU C-34/10 - European Stem Cell Industry

  Posted on 01 December 2011
  Replacement neurons to treat spinal cord injury, insulin-producing cells to treat diabetes, dopamine-producing neurons to treat Parkinson’s disease... the possibilities are endless. As embryonic stem cells are undifferentiated, they theoretically have the ability to develop into any one of the specialised cell or tissue types found in the human body.…
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  Scope of Mental Act Exclusion Clarified and Reduced

  Posted on 01 December 2011
  In a recent case, Halliburton 2011, the UK Courts have significantly clarified (and reduced) the scope of the mental act exclusion in UK patent law.
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  Vacuum Cleaner 'Wars' - Dyson v Vax

  Posted on 15 November 2011
  The UK Court of Appeal handed down a decision on 27 October 2011 that provides some useful guidance regarding construing the scope of a national UK registered design.
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  Trade Mark Newsletter No.59

  Posted on 01 November 2011
• IP Cases & Articles

  Generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) - New Challenges

  Posted on 01 November 2011
  On 20 June 2011, following a long period of consultation with relevant stakeholders, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced its decision to open the internet’s naming system and allow any interested organisation (whether private or public) to apply to register new gTLDs and to become operators…

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