26 November 2020
New judgement regarding the Swedish alcohol monopoly
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2020/sweden/new-judgement-regarding-the-swedish-alcohol-monopoly

The Swedish Patent and Market Court has recently issued a judgment concerning Systembolaget’s alcohol retail monopoly. The background to the case is that the Swedish Alcohol Act (2010:1622) only allows the state ...

26 November 2020
Updates to Swedish Consumer Legislation
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2020/sweden/updates-to-swedish-consumer-legislation

The Swedish government has recently presented an inquiry proposing that the current Consumer Sales Act (1990:932) be replaced by a new act – the Act on Consumer Protection in Sales and Certain Other Contracts.

03 August 2017
Novel or Not Novel? Commission Draft Implementing Regulation on the Consultation Procedure for Assessing the Novel Food Status
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2017/global/commission-draft-implementing-regulation-on-consultation-procedure-for-assessing-novel-food-status

The new Novel Food Regulation, entered into force on January 2016, will become applicable on January 1, 2018. Among the innovations triggered by the Regulation, there is the provision of a consultation procedure aimed ...

27 November 2018
There's no accounting for tastes – CJEU denies copyright protection for flavour
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2018/global/cjeu-denies-copyright-protection-for-flavour

Manon Rieger-Jansen and Nina Dorenbosch consider a recent CJEU decision which denied copyright protection for flavour.