Patent Law. C-121/17. Teva UK, Accord Healthcare Limited, Lupin Limited, Lupin Europe Limited, Generics (UK) Limited and Gilead Sciences Inc. Request for a preliminary ruling. High Court of Justice (Chancery Division) - United Kingdom.

In a case concerning certificates for medicinal products, the High Court of...

Trade Mark Law - Litigation. No error of law by the General Court in demarcating Forge de Laguiole’s business sectors in order to determine the scope of protection of the earlier business name FORGE DE LAGUIOLE

Licence Fees, Customs Value - Article 32 (1) (c) of the Customs Code first does not require the amount of royalties to be determined at the time when an agreement is concluded or when the customs debt is incurred, in order for those royalties to be regarded when the value is to be determined.

Copyright - Full and unaltered transmission of programmes broadcast by the national broadcasting corporation, by means of cables on national territory, is not subject to the requirement that authorisation be obtained from the author, provided that it is merely a technical means of communication and was taken into...

Copyright - National legislation which states that there is no copyright infringement in the case of the immediate retransmission by cable including, where relevant, via the internet, in the area of initial broadcast, of works broadcast on television channels subject to public service obligations is contrary to Article...

Trade Mark Law - General Court did not commit an error in law by granting Scooters India protection for all goods listed in the alphabetical list of class 12.

Case Note - Dick van Engelen: CJEU, 18 July 2013, (C-414/11)1F1F  (Daiichi Sankyo and Sanofi-Aventis v DEMO) (IPPT20130718) (Opinion of A-G P. Cruz Villalón), Judges: V. Skouris, K. Lenaerts, A. Tizzano, M. Ilešič (rapporteur), L. Bay Larsen, T. von Danwitz, A. Rosas and E. Jarašiūnas, U. Lõhmus, J.-C. Bonichot, A...

Copyright - The communication of television and radio broadcasts by means of TV sets installed in hotel rooms does not constitute a communication made in a place accessible to the public against payment of an entrance fee.

Advertising Law - Advertising comparing the prices of goods sold in shops having different sizes or formats, is liable to be unlawful, where those shops are part of retail chains each of which includes a range of shops having different sizes or formats and where the advertiser compares the prices charged in shops...

Copyright - Opinion - The conclusion of the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons who are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled falls within the exclusive competence of the European Union because the body of obligations laid down by the Marrakesh Treaty falls within an area...

Litigation - National legislation under which the holder of an intellectual property right may demand either compensation from the person who has infringed that right for the damage that he has suffered, taking account of all the appropriate aspects of the particular case, or – without him having to prove the actual...

Litigation - Article 8(1) of EU Enforcement Directive 2004 (the right of information) applies when, after the definitive termination of proceedings in which it was held that an IP-right was infringed, a request has been made in separate proceedings for information on the origin and distribution networks of the goods or...

Privacy - National legislation providing for general and indiscriminate retention of all traffic and location data of subscribers and registered users relating to all means of electronic communication in breach with Directive on privacy and electronic communications

Trade Mark Law - Based on Article 9(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009, read in conjunction with Articles 15(1) and 51(1)(a) of that regulation, a proprietor may, in case of likelihood of confusion, prevent third parties from using a sign identical or similar to his mark for identical or similar goods and services within...

Advertising Law - The transitional measure of article 28(2) of Regulation No 1924/2006 on food- and health claims for foodstuff is applicable to a foodstuff which was sold as a medicinal product before 2005 and was afterwards sold as a foodstuff under the same trademark or brand name.

Copyright: French legilsation which authorizes an approved collecting society to reproduce and commercially exploit out-of-print books and gives authors the right to oppose only under certain circumstances is in breach of Directive 2001/29.

Trade Mark Law: Trademark proprietor cannot oppose the trade of a repackaged medicine when a) the medicine cannot be marketed in the importing State in the same outer packaging as in the exporting State and b) when the importer has demonstrated that the imported product can only be marketed in a limited part of the...

Trade Mark Law - The EUIPO and the General Court should have taken into consideration the non-visible functional elements of the object, such as the rotating capability, when investigating the functional nature of the object

Copyright - Related Rights - Lending within the meaning of Article 6(1) Rental Directive covers the lending of a digital copy: in compliance with one copy – one user. Member States may require that the digital copy of the book must have been put into circulation by a first sale or other transfer of ownership of that...

Trade mark law - The assessment of the General Court that the weak distinctive character of the earlier national marks KOMPRESSOR PLUS and KOMPRESSOR could not affect the existence of a likelihood of confusion with the word element ‘compressor technology’ that BHS filed for registration as an EU Trademark is not...