Recently the Court of Appeal of The Hague handed down an important decision on the issue of the transfer of priority rights under the European Patent Convention ("EPC"), which is a first in the Netherlands.
Business secrets have long been poorly protected and difficult to defend compared to intellectual property rights (including patents, copyrights and trademarks).
Although the implementation should have been enacted by 9 June 2018, Luxembourg has finally published, on 13 August, the first draft bill implementing Directive 2016/943 on the protection of undisclosed know-how and business information.
The CJEU sided with Mitsubishi and ruled that a trade mark proprietor has the right to oppose the removal by third parties of its trade marks and their replacement with other marks, even if the products
In its recent Nestlé v Mondelez decision (C-84/17P, C-85/17P and C-95/17P), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) confirmed that the acquisition of distinctive character by non-traditional EU trade marks (EUTM) should be established for the entire European Union not just a substantial part thereof.
Over the last five years, the European Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), through the European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights (Observatory), has carried out research into the consequences of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) infringement in the EU and published the results in June (Full report available here)
En matière de réforme visant à faciliter l’émergence d’un marché unique du numérique, on aura souvent entendu ces jours derniers l’application du Règlement Général pour la Protection des Données, permettant de doter tous les Etats-Membres d’un degré commun et élevé de protection des données personnelles.
The Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) handed down an eagerly awaited decision in a dispute about Christian Louboutin's “red sole mark” which is pending before the District Court of The Hague (NL).
The Benelux Convention on Intellectual Property (BCIP) has been amended as of June 1st. The Benelux Office for Intellectual Property (BOIP) will have new prerogatives as revocation and invalidation actions can be brought before it and the Benelux Court of Justice (BCJ) is now the competent
On 12 June 2018, the Court of Justice of the EU rendered its much-awaited judgement in the case about Louboutin’s red sole trade mark, ruling that this trade mark does not relate to a specific shape of sole for high-heeled shoes
