Decline and Fall
Counterfeit Chic reports on yet another indignity visited on the famous girl singer who is presently popular culture’s most pathetic public death spiral: a European […]
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Will Europe save America this time?
Europe just might save Americans’ free speech and effectively our democracy by its willingness to act against Facebook
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There’s a first time for everything
Jeremy Phillips reports on some “thought I’d seen it all” hijinx from the renowned European Court of F’rinstance: Although [the IPKat] e is generally reluctant to […]
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An emphatic NO!
Chatty Kathy: German designer Wolfgang Joop’s bid to have a punctuation mark trademarked [sic] for his Joop! clothing and perfume company has been denied by […]
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European trademark law swinging from vines
Unlike in the good old U.S. of A., Tarzan’s yell doesn’t cut it in Europe — at least not as a trademark: Tarzan’s distinctive yell […]
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The color purple
Cadbury is purple in the face over not being able to secure the wordlwide exclusive rights to the use of the color purple in association […]
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Shoes are dropping all over Europe: L’Oreal, the world’s largest cosmetics group, has launched legal action against eBay, alleging the online auctioneer does not do […]
Continue reading »… and Europe Strikes Back: Google Loss Upheld by French Court
A friend painfully close to the case forwarded this link reporting that Google has lost its appeal of a judgment for “trademark counterfeiting” against the […]
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Best of 2008: “The Color Purple” (April)
This was first posted on April 14, 2008. Cadbury is purple in the face over not being able to secure the wordlwide exclusive rights to […]
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Keyword advertising law à la française
Google wins! LVMH wins! Only it’s the same case. And they’re on opposite sides. Is this as Euro-law thing? Something particularly Frankish? No, it’s an […]
Continue reading »Ban that man!
London’s Times: People who illegally download films and music will be cut off from the internet under new legislative proposals to be unveiled next week.Internet […]
Continue reading »Come again?
Reuters reports: Apple Computer Inc. said on Tuesday a proposed French law that would force Apple to make sure that songs bought on its iTunes […]
Continue reading »Victory for US GI’s Over Europe
“Geographic Indicators,” that is. The USPTO reports today that: the World Trade Organization (WTO) has released a panel report affirming the United States’ assertion that […]
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From Russia, without royalties
The Kalashnikov rifle: Naked trademark licensing (“I take them into my hands and, my goodness, the marks are foreign,” [General Kalashnikov] said of the knockoffs […]
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