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After a battle of two years, eBay, the online auction site, lost in a French trade mark case and has been ordered by the Paris Commercial Court to pay 40 million Euros to Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (the LVMH group). The LVMH group claimed that eBay had damaged the LVMH reputation by selling counterfeit products in its website. The court accepted their claim and pointed out that not being able to keep counterfeit goods off its site indicate that eBay has 'serious faults' in the way it runs the site. Another argument which was also accepted by the court and claimed by the LVMH group related to perfumes eBay sells on its site. The LVMH group claimed that even the sell of authentic goods on the site should not be allowed, as selling genuine goods harm and infringe LVMH's exclusive
Queen Mary University of London has been offering Postgraduate IP since 1980. To qualify for the degree, students must take 3 taught Modules and submit a 15,000 word dessertation. Last October, WIPO officially confirmed QMIPRI as one of the national NGOs admitted as permanent observers to WIPO. Entry Requirements: (in general) A degree in Law, or one with a substantial law content, with at least upper-second class Honours or equivalent. Law graduates with high 2.2. honours and at least 5 years of professional legal experience may also qualify. International students are required to show high scores on english proficiency test (TOEFL - Test of English as a Foreign Language, IELTS - International English Language Testing Service, or the like). No interview is required. Some of the
An Israeli company by the name of AEROTEL LTD lost its right to a patent for telephone systems in a ruling made by the high court of justice chancery division (patents court) of England ("the High Court") on May 23, 2008. The Israeli company sued WaveCrest (a pre-paid calling card company) for infringement of its patent, which was granted to her on 1985 on a new way of making pre-paid phone calls from any telephone (The Patent relates basically to a method of making pre-paid telephone calls which is available for use from any telephone and to hardware for doing so). Although this patent was more than 20 years old and therefore expired, the sides litigated over alleged infringements when the patent was in force. The High Court ruled that the idea behind the patent was not new and was
A few days ago, from Mr Nikki Tait in FT.com: "[...] Efforts to break the logjam over a so-called 'community patent' - a single intellectual property right which would give a holder protection in all 27 EU countries - have gathered pace in recent months and are being pursued by the current Slovenian presidency. [...] The last effort to launch a community patent had to be abandoned in 2003, because countries were unable to agree on a language regime for the new IP right. But under proposals being hammered out in Brussels, officials hope to offer countries the option of machine-based translation, which could convert a patent into all 23 official EU languages for minimal cost in a matter of minutes. Officials say that this would cost only a few million euros to set up, and allow equal
Posted by: ifat ara in Europe on
Mar 09, 2008
As of the beginning of next month (April 1, 2008) most of the fees for European patents and patent applications will increase. Among many others, some of the fees that are about to be increased are the claims fees, the renewal fees and the search and examination fees. With regard to the calims fees, the number of fee-free claims will increase from 10 to 15 but the fee for each excess claim over 15 will be more expensive than what it used to be for each excess claim over 10. The fee increase for excess claims will cause applicants to reduce the number of claims and accordingly will take off the work burden from the EPO Examiners. More information about the fee changes and other
Hmm.. need a break in the trademark-related entries from our US colleague at Cantor Colburn? ;-) As usual the EPO has a new schedule of fees ready for 1 April with most fees being raised by 5% or other like fair amounts. Beware of the new claim fees and annual maintenance fees, however !! As you know, the EPO charges a fee, currently 45 EUR, for each claim above 10 claims. Starting from 1 April 2008, this is changed to a fee of 200 EUR for each claim above 15 claims. A raise of this order seems to be a political tool for having us reduce the number of claims. This is further emphasized by yet another fee change scheduled for 1 April 2009, where in addition each claim above 50 claims
As Axel H. Horns earlier mentioned in his post, the London Agreement enters into force on 1 May 2008. Now the EPO finally updated their information on the matter, see http://www.epo.org/topics/issues/london-agreement/implementing.html and http://www.epo.org/patents/law/legislative-initiatives/london-agreement/key-points.html, including specifics on the relevant countries. In short, the current status is: The countries not listed below, still require full translation of patents into a national language, as usual! Apart from the translation of the claims into all 3 official EPO languages (English, French and German) required by the EPO for issuing a European patent, no further translations are required for
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