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December ETMR at 1 time out

The 12th as well as concluding consequence of Sweet & Maxwell's European Trade Mark Reports for 2005 has at 1 time been published. Cases appearing inward English linguistic communication for the laid about fourth dimension include

* Clarins Paris SA v Supermercados Sabeco SA (Audiencia Provincia, Zaragoza, Spain), on the availability of damages for commercial as well as "moral" loss next the sale of luxury brands inward downmarket surroundings;

* 100 PANORAMICZNYCH (Supreme Court, Poland) on locus standi for invoking cancellation proceedings as well as on the assessment of what mightiness last called non-descriptive descriptiveness;

* Adidas-Salomon AG v Patent as well as Trade Mark Office (Spanish Supreme Court): hither Adidas secures the cancellation of a three-striped football-shaped bottle.

There are too cases from the UK, OHIM as well as the Court of First Instance. says "Enjoy!" as well as reminds you lot to let him know if you lot come upwardly across whatever interesting cases that ought to last reported inward the ETMR.


Managing Intellectual Property

The Nov 2005 consequence of Euromoney's 10-times-a-year Managing Intellectual Property is sum of interesting features. The comprehend floor previews December's World Trade Organization's Sixth Ministerial Conference, which may decide the time to come direction of the IP/agriculture interface. Staff reporter Sam Mamoudi speculates on the rash of patent cases that mightiness last spreading to the U.S. of A. of America Supreme Court side yesteryear side year. Also, a triumvirate of Osborne Clarke lawyers (Mark Finn, London; Konstantin Ewald, Cologne; Marie-Helene Lemaitre, Paris) review strategies opened upwardly to IP owners whose European patent as well as merchandise grade rights are vulnerable to key attack.