L’Oréal v eBay case Trade mark owners often feel, with some justification, that eBay doesn’t do enough to stop the sale of infringing goods. L’Oréal certainly thought so, and hired investigators to make some test purchases. Of 287 purchases, only 84 were legitimate products intended for sale in the EEA, although the claimant stated that [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Case note 27 August 09: L’Oréal v eBay case
Posted in Uncategorized on August 27, 2009 |
Analysis: Novelty: House of Lords lays down the rules
Posted in Uncategorized on August 27, 2009 |
Novelty: House of Lords lays down the rules The House of Lords has been particularly active in the patents field in the last couple of years. You might wait for ages for their Lordships to hear a patent case, and then along come three in quick succession, beginning with Kirin Amgen and SABAF. The latest [...]
Court of Appeal upholds levofloxacin patent and SPC
Posted in Uncategorized on August 19, 2009 |
Court of Appeal upholds levofloxacin patent and SPC On 2 July 2009, the Court of Appeal in Generics (UK) Limited v Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co Ltd and another upheld the High Court’s decision that a patent on a chiral antimicrobial compound called levofloxacin was valid and so too was the supplementary protection certificate based on it. [...]
Court of Appeal on construction of construction fixings patent: Ancon Ltd v ACS Stainless Steel Fixings Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 498, 16 June 2009
Posted in Uncategorized on August 19, 2009 |
Court of Appeal on construction of construction fixings patent In Ancon Ltd v ACS Stainless Steel Fixings Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 498, 16 June 2009 the Court of Appeal reversed part of the decision of Patten J in the High Court, which had found that a patent was valid but not infringed. There was no [...]
Casenote: JN Dairies Limited v (1) Johal Dairies Limited (2) Gurbir Singh [2009] EWHC 1331
Posted in Uncategorized on August 18, 2009 |
In JN Dairies Limited v (1) Johal Dairies Limited (2) Gurbir Singh [2009] EWHC 1331 (Ch, Birmingham), 12 June 2009 HHJ David Cooke ruled that there was an actionable breach of confidence by the defendants concerning the claimant’s invoices. The dispute was between two competing wholesale dairy companies. The judge found that the second defendant, [...]
Article: European Union: ´Limitations On Imitations: No More Free Rides´ — The ECJ´s Recent Decision On Comparative Advertising
Posted in Uncategorized on August 13, 2009 |
Reed Smith European Union: ´Limitations On Imitations: No More Free Rides´ — The ECJ´s Recent Decision On Comparative Advertising Via Mondaq 13 August 2009 Article by Emma Lenthall and Tina Sany-Davies The European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) delivered a significant judgment on 18 June 2009 on whether cheap imitations of L’Oréal perfumes, which were clearly [...]
Casenote: Vestergaard Frandsen v Bestnet and others [2009] EWHC 657 (Ch)
Posted in Uncategorized on August 13, 2009 |
In Vestergaard Frandsen v Bestnet and others [2009] EWHC 657 (Ch), 3 April 2009, Arnold J held that there was breach of the duty of confidence owed by a consultant to the company for which he had been working, when he went to work for a rival and took trade secrets with him. The rival [...]
Note on: Fisher v Brooker [2009] UKHL 41
Posted in Uncategorized on August 13, 2009 |
Note on Fisher v Brooker [2009] UKHL 41 Lord Hope of Craighead, Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe, Baroness Hale of Richmond, Lord Mance, Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury The House of Lords, in its last batch of judgments before its metamorphosis into the Supreme Court, upheld Blackburne J’s judgment in Matthew Fisher v Gary Brooker which had [...]
Intellectual property Law resource on Insite Law
Posted in Uncategorized on August 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Dr Peter Groves, a solicitor and author of the Ipso Jure blog is publishing his detailed text on Intellectual Property law. This will be FREE to view and use and will be supported by case analyses, articles from the web and the latest news on Intellectual Property.
