Intellectual Property News

The Intellectual Property Enterprise Court ("IPEC") has recently made a judgement, which established that an individual who commissioned logos to be designed for their business was...

The Italian high-fashion brand Moschino, along with its Designer, Jeremy Scott, is being sued for copyright infringement by a graffiti artist also known as Rime who claims that a p...

For a number of years the position has not been precise as to whether protection by a trade mark may be obtained with respect to retail trade in services as opposed to retail trade...

In a recent decision, the Federal Administrative Court in Switzerland, on appeal from the Swiss Intellectual Property Office, dismissed an opposition by Yves Saint Laurent ("YSL") ...

Sugartown Worldwide LLC ("Sugartown"), the owner of the famous Lilly Pulitzer (of the Pulitzer Prize family genus) trade mark, claims copyright infringement of several clothes and ...

Can descriptive or laudatory marks be protected as trademarks?  In a recent development, Case T-611/13 Australian Gold LLC Management & Holding GmbH, ("Australian Gold") seems to h...

Sony is currently being sued by 19 Recordings Ltd.  Sony has taken a financial stake in the music download site Spotify and therefore benefits from general advertising revenue howe...

A biography of Joseph Goebbels written by Peter Longerich, a professor of modern German history at Royal Holloway College and released by the publisher Random House in 2010 has rec...

American football teams experience winning and losing on the football field but the Washington Redskins have suffered a defeat off the pitch in relation to their case for six of th...

The General Court recently overturned a Board of Appeal decision in Case T-521/13, to rule that there was, at least in a part of the relevant public, a likelihood of confusion betw...

The law relating to Community design rights is set out in COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 6/2002 otherwise known as the Community Designs Regulation ("CDR"). A recent case T-15/13 - Gr...

A California photographer, Dennis Flaherty, is suing beverage company Big Red for using one of his photographs on their social media account for promotional purposes. This form of ...