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Patents
In this second article of a three-part series, Andrea Walsh and Cris Flagg of Express Search focus on the value of preliminary freedom-to-operate research throughout the product development cycle. 19 September 2018
Trademarks
Five years after the launch of the Trademark Clearinghouse, which is used to protect rights in the new generic top-level domains, WIPR speaks to three companies that use the service about its impact on brand protection. 18 September 2018
Patents
IP management company Sisvel announced yesterday the launch of a joint licensing programme for patents essential to the DVB-S2X standard. 18 September 2018
Trademarks
UK-based consumers’ association Which? has been unsuccessful in opposing a trademark application made by a restaurant advice company. 18 September 2018
Trademarks
Budget retailer Lidl received mixed news at the European Union Intellectual Property Office last week after it backed the company’s attempt to revoke a trademark, but only partly dismissed an opposition to Lidl’s own mark. 18 September 2018
Trademarks
The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys yesterday implored UK Prime Minister Theresa May to include the UK’s continued participation in the EU’s trademarks and designs system post-Brexit in ongoing negotiations. 18 September 2018
Patents
Dennemeyer has appointed Guillaume Ouvrieu to oversee the company’s activities in France, while Dallas Wilkinson has taken the reigns in Asia Pacific (APAC). 18 September 2018
Trademarks
The IACC-UL Latin America Regional Brand Protection Summit will take place from October 17 to 19 at the Waldorf Astoria in Orlando, Florida, as WIPR finds out. 18 September 2018
Jurisdiction reports
Parallel importation of pharmaceuticals in the EU has, for a long time, raised many issues. National constraints require the parallel importer to modify the presentation of the products in order to comply with national laws, and the trademark owner has tried to make use of such alteration to oppose the commercialisation of the goods that were escaping its distribution network in that way. 18 September 2018
Jurisdiction reports
Several recent decisions of Germany’s Supreme Court, the Federal Court of Justice—for instance, a case decided in October 2017 called Products For Wound Treatment—hold that an injunction order contained in a judgment for unfair competition or trademark infringement requires the defendant not only to cease and desist the activity for which he has been sentenced, but moreover demands that he recall the infringing goods from his customers. 18 September 2018
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