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• EU Court released on Tuesday, November 26, 2014, the jugement in the Case T-450/09. 26/Nov/2014 - The registration as a Community trade of the Rubik cube’s shape is valid. The graphical representation of the cube doesn’t contain a technical solution to prevent its protection as a trademark. At the request of Seven Towns, a British company… Read more
• The use without consent of the Chanel trademark owner’s exclusive rights. 11/Dec/2014 - The High Court of Cassation and Justice ruled that, for the purposes of art. 3 paragraphs. (1) pt. 11 lit. a) of Law no. 344/2005, counterfeit goods is "any goods, including packaging, bearing without authorization an identical trademark or which… Read more
• New changes to the Common Regulation. 06/Jan/2015 - The Madrid Union Assembly approved new changes to the Common Regulation during his 48th session held in September in Geneva. These new changes came into effect on 1st January 2015. When an application will be processed, the international bureau will… Read more
• Issues regarding the attempts to trademark the phrase “Je suis Charlie”. 06/Jan/2015 - OHIM says that these applications are unlikely to pass. Even though a large number of application were filed all over the world, none of them has been filed at OHIM yet. However, France’s IP office rejected 50 attempts to trademark… Read more
• The CJEU ruled. 23/Jan/2015 - Due to the case Hejduk vs. EnergieAgentur, CJEU ruled that an EU member state has the power to hear an infringement action regarding the copyright-infringing work accessible online in that country. The court is concerned about the posting of copyrighted… Read more

• British Petroleum vs. The Community Trademarks and Design Court (Republic of Poland) 19/May/2016 - Case File No XXII GWzt 15/08 British Petroleum  p.l.c. requested that: The respondent be prohibited from infringing the claimant’s registered rights of Community trade mark Nos 1 991, 1 142 363, 1 968 403, 3 363 652 and 1 916… Read more
• Helena Rubinstein And L’Oréal vs. OHIM 19/May/2016 - Case C-100/11 P The present case concerns the appeal brought by Helena Rubinstein SNC and L’Oréal SA (‘Helena Rubinstein’ and ‘L’Oréal’; or, collectively, ‘the appellants’) against the judgment by which the General Court dismissed the actions which they had brought… Read more
• CJEU ruled! 19/May/2016 - The Court of Justice of the EU is concerned about the high fees practicated by the collecting society. She thinks that imposing these high fees may amount to an abuse of a dominant position. The Court also decided that a… Read more
• Twitter in danger of lawsuit with IBM 19/May/2016 - Even though, the two companies announced, last month, that they had reached an agreement, that settled a 2013 claim by IBM, Twitter paid $36 million to avoid a patent infringement suit. Read more