The Common Regulations under the Madrid Agreement and Protocol has been amended.
The Council Regulation No 6/2002 of December 12, 2001 on Community designs has been published in the Official Journal of January 5, 2002, therefore it will get in force on March 6, 2002.
By two decisions of the Administrative Council of 18 October 2001 and 13 December 2001, the European Patent Office (EPO) has modified the rules relating to fees.
12 countries are negociating for entering in the today's 15 Member State European Union.
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
