Organisation: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Indonesia’s membership in the Madrid Protocol has had a noticeable impact on several aspects of daily practice and on the IP office itself, with a number of important developments for trademark professionals to note.

23 September 2020

Crunching the numbers on filing in Indonesia provides invaluable insight into the impact that the Madrid Protocol is having on the country’s IP office and highlights several issues of which trademark professionals need to be aware.

16 September 2020

Samsung’s trademark SAMSUNG QLED has proceeded to registration in Australia despite it wholly containing LG Electronics’ QLED trademark, and despite the products on which the trademark is used by Samsung not actually using QLED technology.

27 July 2020

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World Trademark Review’s annual EUIPO focus assesses current office processes, reveals the most proactive filers and explores how the agency has responded to the impact of covid-19 on its employees, users and offerings.

08 July 2020

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Less than a year into Christian Archambeau’s tenure as executive director, the EUIPO is laying the groundwork for future expansion. World Trademark Review’s annual focus on the office assesses current operations, reveals the most proactive filers and explores how the agency is taking a global view of trademarks.

29 July 2019

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While European trademark practice is on the cusp of significant change, the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market’s (OHIM) gaze is firmly focused on the present. In this year’s annual OHIM survey we asked users to assess the office’s current performance and the likely impact that the legislative package will have once enacted

01 September 2015

In <I>Apple v Samsung</I>, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has become the latest court to weigh in on the smartphone war between Apple and Samsung. The Federal Circuit overturned the jury’s verdict that Samsung infringed Apple’s trade dress, finding that each of Apple’s asserted trade dress designs was functional and non-protectable.

28 May 2015

In the latest instalment of the parallel imports saga, the Division Bench of the Delhi High Court has ruled in <i>Samsung Electronics Co Ltd v Kapil Wadhwa</i> that India follows the principle of international exhaustion. The court interpreted Section 30(3) of the Trademarks Act as permitting the sale of imported products without the consent of the registered proprietor.

18 October 2012

In <i>Samsung Electronics (UK) Ltd v Apple Inc</i>, the High Court of England and Wales has considered several preliminary issues in a case involving Apple Inc’s registered Community design for a tablet computer. Among other things, the court ruled that it had no jurisdiction to hear the claim for a declaration of non-infringement in the United Kingdom.

21 May 2012