by manuel.roche | Mar 25, 2013 | All, Copyright, Internet
The European Court of Human Rights recently declared inadmissible the complaint filed by two founding members of the website The Pirate Bay that their convictions for copyright infringement by Swedish courts interfered with their right to freedom of expression under...
by manuel.roche | Feb 28, 2013 | All, Internet, Trademarks
The creation of new domain names extensions or new generic top-level domains (new gTLDs) before ICANN (Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers) represents a true technical and legal revolution in the digital world. It also means great risks for trademark...
by manuel.roche | Feb 28, 2013 | All, Designs, Trademarks
The registered Community design will celebrate its 10th anniversary on April 1, 2013. These 10 years have enabled the Courts to clarify the conditions of protection of this unified title. According to the Community regulation, “the assessment as to whether a design...
by manuel.roche | Feb 4, 2013 | All, Trademarks
Further to the important decision of the Court of Justice Of the European Union IP TRANSLATOR (see our previous article), the French trademark office (INPI) and the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) have each rendered an...
by manuel.roche | Jan 28, 2013 | All, Trademarks
Last summer, the French Cour de cassation issued a very important ruling regarding the scope of protection that may be granted to a company name. According to the Supreme Court, “the company name is protected only in connection with the activities actually performed...
