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HTMLCJEU Suggests Use in Multiple Member States is a Factual, Though Not a Legal, Necessity for Most Community Trade Marks
Nicholas C.A. Bolter, Gareth Dickson; Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP;
Legal Alert/Article
December 26, 2012, previously published on December 20, 2012
The CJEU yesterday handed down its much anticipated decision in Leno Merken BV v Hagelkruis Beheer BV Case C-149/11, concerning the geographical extent to which a Community trade mark must be used to avoid sanctions for non-use.

 

HTMLFiling Trade Mark Applications in Europe: Mind Your Spec...
Nicholas C.A. Bolter, Adam Lewington, Colin Sawdy; Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP;
Legal Alert/Article
July 19, 2012, previously published on July 2012
All trade mark applications in Europe must be filed with respect to a defined list of goods and services, for which the trade mark is to be protected. The goods and services that can be covered by trade marks are divided into 45 distinct categories, known as "Classes". The scope of each...

 

HTMLNational Use neither Proves nor Precludes Finding of Genuine Use of a Community Trade Mark
Nicholas C.A. Bolter, Gareth Dickson; Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP;
Legal Alert/Article
July 19, 2012, previously published on July 2012
Five years after a trade mark is registered in the European Union it becomes subject to use requirements: the trade mark owner can only rely on the mark in litigation or trade mark opposition proceedings to the extent the mark has been put to "genuine use". For the Community Trade Mark,...

 

HTMLOnline Behavioural Advertising: EU Compliance Update for 2012
Nicholas C.A. Bolter, Ben Goodger, Richard Graham; Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP;
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December 15, 2011, previously published on December 2011
In 2011 all 27 European Union Member States were required to implement changes to the revised E-Privacy Directive relating to online behavioural advertising and tracking technologies into national law. In this Client Advisory, we look ahead to what 2012 will bring for organisations subject to...