By Ordinance No. 2001-670 of July 25, 2001, the French Intellectual Property Law has been modified within its Books V (Designs), VII (Trade Marks) and VIII (Application to French Polynesia, Wallis and…
The European Court of First Instance and the European Court of Justice have delivered important judgments concerning the distinctive character of Community trademarks : "Baby-dry" and "3D tablets"…
Definition of the prohibition of "reformatio in peius" : it is where the rules of court procedure governing appeals prevent a court of appeal from going beyond the requests of the appealing party and…
In our June 2001 news, we had taken up the facts and injunction orders in chambers in the case opposing the Company GROUPE DANONE to Mr M., who has registered the domain name "jeboycottedanone.com"…
According to Article 87 EPC, the priority date of a first application may be claimed when the second application is for the "same invention" than the first one.
Extracts of the Decision of Technical Board of Appeal 3.3.1 dated 7 November 1989 - T 73/88 - 3.3.1
On April 4, 2001, Mr M. has registered the domain name jeboycottedanone.com and opened a website with a view to expose the social policy of the Danone Organization and its decision to close down…
On April 7, 2000, the Technical Board of Appeal 3.3.2 has delivered a decision relating to the lack-of-unity objection raised "a posteriori" during international preliminary examination
Two Boards of Appeal of EPO have referred similar points of law to the Enlarged Board of Appeal in order to obtain a decision related to the interpretation of Article 55(1) EPC : "Non-prejudicial…
The decisions of the Opposition Division as well as the ones of the Board of Appeal of the OHIM ("the Office") concerning the oppositions allow to see the Office doctrine taking shape accurately.
