IP Case Reports - Trade Marks, Designs, Copyright & Confidential Information 

 
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Here are recent case reports on trade mark, designs, copyright and confidential information cases, including appeals from the UK Intellectual Property Office to the Appointed Office to the Appointed Person, judgments from the Courts (England & Wales) and decisions of the General Court (previously known as the Court of First Instance) and the European Court of Justice.

The reports are prepared monthly by our lawyers in the London IP department under Katharine Stephens' direction and published in the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys journal. To find a case report of particular interest, you can also search our archive by using the tool on the left.  The reports go back to January 2001.

01.01.2012
top This month we report on the CJ's decision in relation to copyright in the context of reception and use of broadcasts in Football Association Premier League v QC Leisure/Karen Murphy v Media Protection ...
01.11.2011
This month we report on the CJ's decision on registered Community design rights and the "informed user" in PepsiCo Inc v Promer. We also report on the Court of Appeal's ruling in Dyson v Vax ...
30.10.2011
This month we report on the CJ's decisions on keywords and trade marks with a reputation in Interflora v Marks & Spencer, as well as a further instalment in the long-running trade mark dispute between ...
30.09.2011
This month we report on selected decisions of the Appointed Person between January and July 2011, as well as the decision of the Patents County Court in Beechwood House Publishing T/A Binleys v Guardian ...
01.08.2011
This month we report on the CJ's decision on keywords and electronic marketplace operators in L’Oréal v eBay, the decision of the Supreme Court in Lucasfilm v Ainsworth on copyright in Stormtrooper helmets, ...
01.07.2011
This month we report on invalidity proceedings relating to a Registered Community Design in Sphere Time v OHIM; Punch SAS and we report on the decision of the Patents County Court on unregistered design ...
01.06.2011
This month we report on the Advocate General's opinion on copyright in photographic works in Eva-Maria Painer v Standard Verlags, we look at the Court of Appeal's decision in Best Buy Co. Inc & Anr ...
01.05.2011
This month we look at the CJ's interpretation of the terms 'use in the course of trade' in an area of 'more than mere local significance’ in Anheuser-Busch Inc v Budĕjovický Budvar národní podnik, we report ...
01.04.2011
This month we report on the AG's opinion on keyword advertising using marks with a reputation in Interflora v Marks & Spencer, we report on the first trial under the new Patents County Court rules ...
01.03.2011
This month we report on the AG's opinion on the meaning of 'acquiescence' and 'honest concurrent use' in Budĕjovický Budvar národní podnik v Anheuser-Busch Inc, we look at the seizure of in-transit counterfeit ...
 
 
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