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The Fair Labor Standards Act, or FLSA, was first established in 1938. The FLSA is a US federal law which governs several aspects of employment. Most notably, the FLSA established a national minimum wage standard, outlined rules for overtime pay, and prohibited most forms of child labor. Since its creation 70 years ago, the FLSA [...]
Intellectual Property (”IP”) crime (counterfeiting and piracy as it is more widely known), has grown considerably over the past 10 years and is reported to have serious economic effects both in the UK and globally. Ineffective enforcement of intellectual property rights (”IPRs”) is a significant cost to industry in terms of damage to innovation and [...]
The recent decision by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Societ des Produits Nestl SA v Mars UK Ltd [2005], makes it easier for trade mark owners to satisfy the distinctive character test when applying for registration of their trade marks. The ECJ decided that the necessary distinctive character required for a trade mark [...]
The recent case of Wistbray Ltd v Creative Nature Ltd (2005) emphasises that the Court will look at the overall impression of a sign to determine whether it infringes a trade mark.
Section 10 of the Trade Marks Act 1994 provides, so far as is material: ‘(2) A person infringes a registered trade mark if he [...]
The European Court of Justice (”ECJ”) ruled in Praktiker Bau- und Heimwerkermrkte (C 418/02) that a trade mark that is now in use by a company on its goods can be extended to cover the services provided by this company.
A DIY retailer Praktiker Mrkte, filed for registration with the Deutsches Patent und Markenamt (the German [...]
In Newman Ltd v Adlem (2005), the Court of Appeal held that there was a duty on the seller of a business not to undermine the goodwill attached to that business (if included in the sale) even after the non-competition covenants in the sale agreement had expired. Goodwill is an intangible asset valued according to [...]
In the case of CeWe Color AG and Co v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (T-178/03 and T-179/03), the Court of First Instance rejected CeWe’s trade mark applications on the grounds that the marks were merely descriptive and lacked distinctiveness.
In 2001, CeWe applied for registration of the Community Trade [...]
Intellectual property’s tentacles are long and strong. Maybe the largest battlefield in IP is the music industry. Composer, producers, interpreters and license owners might get unexpectedly involved in legal battles regarding the misuse or abuse of a song of their property. Sometimes it is just something as little as a sample of the song but [...]
It is not too risky to affirm that intellectual property will soon be History.
Rules designed for the paper era are not useful, enforceable and cost-economic in the
Web era.
Here are a few reasons:
1) Intellectual property is not designed for the Web times
I strongly believe that intellectual property will soon be history, not because
Anarchism will succeed over [...]
In GfK AG v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) (2005), a companys application for a community trade mark was rejected on the grounds that there was a likelihood of confusion with a previously registered German trade mark.
On 15 November 1999, the applicant applied for a Community Trade Mark (CTM) for the mark [...]