Get ready for a post-Brexit IP world
The transition period set up after Brexit will end on 1 January 2021, barring any hypothetical new extension. Apart from European patents validated in the United Kingdom or simply applied […]
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The infringement liability of lessors: the delicate balance between qualification as an intermediary, free trade, knowledge and participation…
The Saint-Ouen flea market is “known” for the sale of counterfeit goods[1]. Top luxury brands are generally targeted and thus engage in a constant struggle not only to defend their […]
WHAT LEEWAY IS THERE FOR GEOGRAPHICAL TRADEMARKS?
DEFINITION: MEANING AND CONSEQUENCES: A geographical trademark is in principle a word mark (if we exclude figurative signs representing the outline of a country, region, island, etc.). In former Article […]
When copyright gets on a bike: a tour of the Brompton Decision
In the Brompton case[1] the CJEU handed down a widely noted decision last June 11 on the protection of functional shapes by copyright, in response to a question for preliminary […]
2020 is postponed. On your marks?
Science-fiction has continuously been imagining and revisiting time travel. But in the real world, it is sports event organizers who will actually make us go back in time: in the […]
Merchandise in transit in France: a breach of rights at last sanctioned against?
In France trademark law has recently undergone substantial transformation following the transposition of EU Directive No. 2015/2436 of December 16, 2015 (called the “Trademark Package”) by Order No. 2019-1169 of November 13, […]