Newsletter number 40 – April 2014

Newsletter

This newsletter contains articles on the following subjects:

  • The Spanish CTM Court rules on the use of comparison lists in the business of smell-alike perfumes.
  • Community Trademark Court of Appeal confirms the first instance sentence and revokes a Spanish cover trademark and declares the infringement of the Armani Eagle.
  • Destruction and storage costs in judicial proceedings started under Council Regulation 1383/2003.

Newsletter number 37 – July 2013

Newsletter

This newsletter contains articles on the following subjects:

  • Non-infringement of Copyright. Validity of trademarks related to “BENITO” character.
  • Draft bill to amend the Spanish Criminal Code.
  • Comunicación conjunta de la OAMI y las Oficinas nacionales, de 2 de mayo de 2013, sobre la aplicación de la Sentencia “IP Translator” – Consecuencias para España.

Newsletter number 35 – January 2103

Newsletter

This newsletter contains articles on the following subjects:

  • EU approves unitary patent but Spain opts out for the time being.
  • Ruling from the Malaga Court of Appeal. No prescription as the facts are not a misdemeanor against intellectual property.
  • The Supreme Court accepts that the quantification of damages for infringement of an intellectual property right is made in enforcement.
  • Trademark infringement in Spain: the Community Trademark Court rejects the doctrine of “Immunity by virtue of registration”.

Newsletter number 32 – April 2012

Newsletter

This newsletter contains articles on the following subjects:

  • Revocation due to lack of inventive step of Pfizer patent on polymorph of magnesium atrovastatin.
  • Bad faith, nullity of marks and infringement: Nuances of the CTM Court criteria.
  • The defendant’s lack of cooperation cannot benefit him when quantifying the damages.
  • Condemnatory Judgment in a criminal case of imitation of a well-known trademark, the importer having invoked a cover registration.

Newsletter number 15 – October 2007

Newsletter

This newsletter contains articles on the following subjects:

  • The European Court of Justice interprets article 33 of the Trips Agreement
  • Recognition in case law of the ‘Copyleft’ and ‘Creative Commons’ licences
  • Paving the way towards judicial cooperation when taking evidence in cross border intellectual property litigation
  • Clarification of the jurisdiction of the community trademark courts of Alicante