Russian law provides an effective instrument for preventing and detecting import of counterfeit goods and parallel import – the Customs Register of Intellectual Property (“Customs IP Register”). The…
Evidence supported the finding that marks owned by the operator of the San Diego Comic Convention were not generic, and litigation misconduct by the defendant supported a $3.9 million attorney fee…
CJEU’s recent preliminary ruling in Gömböc Case C-237/19 highlights assessment criteria regarding the registrability of shapes of goods as trademarks. The shape of the Gömböc was refused trademark…
If a mark is revoked after never being used, may the trademark owner obtain compensation of the “damages” incurred before revocation took effect? This what the CJEU was asked to decide in case C 622/…
Expired utility patent described the advantages of product configuration trade dress for "a beveled scalloped upper edge of a metal fastener."
The federal district court in Chicago properly…
Red Bull GmbH v Big Horn UK Limited & Ors [2020] EWHC 124 (Ch)
This case is an interesting commentary on the route that rights holders can pursue in order to challenge lookalike products.…
There is no per se rule providing that dismissal without prejudice of claims involving a fee-shifting statute such as the Lanham Act necessarily causes a defendant to suffer legal prejudice from…
Jeroen Muyldermans and Paul Maeyaert, both experienced IP litigators at the renowned Belgian law firm Altius, have undertaken the humungous task of compiling, analysing, structuring and…
(Updated as of 21.05.2020 due to further changes in legislation and to provide clarifications)
Austria, as many other countries, adopted legal measures to extend deadlines with a view to the COVID-19…
In February this year a dispute between the law firm FOCUS Advokater (“FOCUS Lawyers” in English) and the accounting firm Beierholm was decided by the Danish Maritime and Commercial High Court (BS-…
