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Termination by Email? - Check the Contractual Provisions

Termination by Email? - Check the Contractual Provisions

Mar 25, 2015
Ticket2Final v Wigan Athletic AFC highlights the need for parties to a contract to comply fully with any formal notice provisions in the contract when they seek to terminate it. It...
SmartWater Trade Mark Revoked for Lack of Genuine Use

SmartWater Trade Mark Revoked for Lack of Genuine Use

Mar 24, 2015
A recent decision by the General Court of the European Union (Seventh Chamber) ("General Court") in Case T-250/13 Naazneen Investments Ltd v OHIM, Energy Brands Inc. intervening ha...
Courts and their Pro-dispute Resolution Stance

Courts and their Pro-dispute Resolution Stance

Mar 17, 2015
The case of Laporte v The Commissioner for the Police of the Metropolis [2015] EWHC 371 (QB), has reinforced the pro-alternate dispute resolution ("ADR") stance of courts. ADR enc...
Copyright Infringement – Lines to be blurred again?

Copyright Infringement – Lines to be blurred again?

Mar 16, 2015
We have previously reported on the trial to determine whether the hit song 'Blurred Lines' by Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams and Clifford Harris Junior infringed that of Marvin Ga...
Pinterest, Inc. v Premium Interest Ltd, Opposition No. 2009309

Pinterest, Inc. v Premium Interest Ltd, Opposition No. 2009309

Mar 12, 2015
Pinterest is a photo-sharing website where users can upload and pin and save images onto pin boards so that they can manage events and interests.   Pinterest Inc USA have been usin...
Copyright Infringement - Lines Not So Blurred Now

Copyright Infringement - Lines Not So Blurred Now

Mar 11, 2015
Marvin Gaye's children have been awarded nearly $7.4m after a jury found that Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams copied their father's music to create Blurred Lines, the biggest so...
Hall & Oates Sue Early Birds Foods For Trade Mark Infringement

Hall & Oates Sue Early Birds Foods For Trade Mark Infringement

Mar 10, 2015
Seventies pop duo, Hall & Oates, known for such singles as 'Man Eater' and the Paul Young cover success, 'Everytime You Go Away', are suing the makers of a cereal Early Bird Foods ...
Battle of the Brands: When is a trade mark not a trade mark?

Battle of the Brands: When is a trade mark not a trade mark?

Mar 3, 2015
In a recent judgement in the case between Supreme Pet Foods Ltd v Henry Bell & Co (Grantham) Ltd, Arnold J was tasked with deciding on a claim for trade mark infringement and a cou...
Fox News Denied Summary Judgment in 9/11 Photograph Fair Use Case

Fox News Denied Summary Judgment in 9/11 Photograph Fair Use Case

Feb 25, 2015
The recent decision in North Jersey Media Group Inc. v. Jeanine Pirro and Fox News Network, LLC. is relevant to copyright infringement. On 10 February 2015 , Judge Edgardo Ramos f...
Let it go...Copyright claim over Disney's Frozen thrown out

Let it go...Copyright claim over Disney's Frozen thrown out

Feb 23, 2015
A US District Court has thrown out the claim of a woman who alleged that Disney's Frozen infringed the copyright in her memoirs. Isabella Tanikumi's claim was that the film had mis...
The Innocent "Dude" and the Construction of Terms

The Innocent "Dude" and the Construction of Terms

Feb 18, 2015
An interesting and noteworthy decision is the one made by Robert Engelhart QC in Fresh Trading Limited v. Deepend Fresh Recovery Limited and Andrew T R Chappel [2015] EWHC 52 (Ch)....
First Paperless Criminal Trial

First Paperless Criminal Trial

Feb 18, 2015
The first criminal trial to use iPads in a bid to reduce paperwork got underway yesterday.  Members of the jury sitting on a three-month fraud trial at Southwark Crown Court were h...
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