17 February 2012
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DOMAIN NAMES The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced this week that one month after the opening of the new generic Top-Level Domain...
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24 January 2012
EUROPEAN PATENT UPDATE Figures on European patent filings for 2011 to be read as sign of great confidence in Europe as a place for business, says EPO's president.The...
09 January 2012
DOMAIN NAMES In theory any established organisation may apply for a new generic Top Level Domain; in practice the financial, technical and operative requirements fo...
01 January 2012
The 10th edition of the Nice Classification will come into force on 1 January 2012. Established in 1957, the Nice Classification consists of a classification of good...
22 December 2011
Now that Italy has stopped opposing the European Commission’s plans for a Unified Patents Court, could Milan become one of the new court’s seats?Italy has sudden...
16 December 2011
EU law requires that the goods or services listed in an application for trademark registration be indicated according to certain standards of clarity and preciseness...
01 December 2011
In its decision in case C-34/10 the Court of Justice of the European Union interprets EU laws on patents for biotech inventions, defining the notion of “human embr...
02 November 2011
EUROPEAN UNION COURTS - CASE LAW The decision provides essential guidance for Community design applicants in that it defines the notion of “informed user”, centr...
14 October 2011
EUROPEAN UNION COURTS - CASE LAW Use of a keyword corresponding to a competitor’s trademark to advertise identical goods or services on a search engine is not agai...
07 October 2011
The London Agreement will come into force for Finland on 1 November 2011, making it possible to reduce translation costs for the validation of European patents in Fi...
