Organisation: European Economic Area

What a Labour government might mean for UK IP policy

A potential new government may bring closer ties with the European Union and be more open to lobbying, say trademark professionals.

12 June 2024

General Court: Board of Appeal correctly limited its likelihood of confusion assessment to part of the relevant public

The decision reiterates that it is not a requirement of Article 8(1)(b) that, for a mark to be refused registration, the likelihood of confusion must exist in all the member states and language areas of the European Union.

22 April 2024

ChatGPT, DALL-E 2, DeepL: what do the T&Cs say about IP ownership, data retention and infringement?

Ericsson senior IP rights and open-source researcher Eleftheria Stefanaki examines the terms and conditions of three of the most common AI tools on the market.

25 March 2024

CJEU considers burden of proving exhaustion of rights conferred by EUTMs

The CJEU confirmed that, when a party invokes the exhaustion of trademark rights, the burden of proof may not necessarily be borne exclusively by the defendant.

31 January 2024

HIPO tightens criteria for authorised IP representatives

The change is due to the increasing number of cases where applicants and rights holders were represented by persons or companies that were not professional representatives.

14 June 2023

New dispositions on regional exhaustion of rights apply to cases initiated under previous Trademark Law

This decision of the Commercial Court constitutes the first application and interpretation of the principle of regional exhaustion under the new Trademark Law.

16 May 2023

Parallel import infringement cases under the CJEU’s spotlight

The CJEU clarified how national court orders in infringement actions should be formulated in parallel import cases.

08 December 2022

The WHOIS blackout: the past, present and future of domain enforcement

The ability to enforce in the domain space has nosedived in the past few years, with new privacy laws restricting the availability of domain registrants’ personal data. Experts explain how rights holders can most effectively shape the future of the domain space.

29 September 2022

New trademark law enters into force - what you need to know

This update highlights the main points of interest for trademark owners and practitioners, including the removal of the graphical representation requirement and the introduction of additional absolute and relative grounds for refusal.

08 August 2022

EURid extends citizenship criteria and gives last chance to UK registrants

The ‘.eu’ registry has updated its registration rules to enable expats from three additional countries to register ‘.eu’ domain names, and announced that Brexit-related withdrawn domain names could still be recovered by the end of this year.

20 September 2021