Milo & Gabby LLC v. Amazon.com, Inc., Case No. 2016-1290 (Fed. Cir. May 23, 2017)
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently affirmed a district court’s decision that Amazon.com, Inc. (“Amazon”) was not liable for patent, copyright, and trademark infringement based on third-party sales of pillowcases on Amazon’s website. More
Under Turkey’s new Industrial Property Law No. 6769, an unregistered design is protected for three years in the event that it is first presented to the public in Turkey. The owner may enforce its rights in the unregistered design against third parties who, without the owner’s consent,More
South Sudan, established in July 2011 after a referendum approving independence from Sudan, has not been accepting trademark applications due to the lack of a trademark law. However, the Ministry of Justice in South Sudan has confirmed that trademarks may be reserved pending the passage of a trade mark law. More
No. 301-Aд17-4305
On May 15, 2017, the Supreme Court (highest court) of the Russian Federation upheld a decision of the Russian IP court (No. A43-10065/2016) which, at first glance, appears to undermine a trademark owner’s ability to enforce its marks against unauthorized third-party uses. More
We previously reported the March 6, 2017 implementation of new trademark rules in India, which included the creation of a well-known marks list. The Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks has now issued guidelines for filing such requests.More
August Storck KG v. European Union Intellectual Property Office (Case No. C-417/16P, May 4, 2017)
The Court of Justice of the European Union (“ECJ”) recently issued a decision in which it confirmed that case law which was developed in relation to the distinctiveness of three-dimensional marks consisting of the appearance of the product itself also applies to figurative marks for the two-dimensional representation of a product. More
Stichting Brein v. Ziggo BV, XS4ALL Internet BV, Case C-610/15, Judgment of 14 June 2017 (Court of Justice of the European Union)
In June 2017, the Court of Justice of the European Union handed down a major decision ordering certain Dutch Internet access providers to block access to the well-known file-sharing platform The Pirate Bay. More
As of May 4, 2017, oral hearings in trademark review cases are available at the discretion of the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board (“TRAB”), pursuant to measures issued by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce of China.
The hearings are supplementary to the usual written submissions. More
Doosan Corporation and Doosan Infracore Co, Ltd. v. Beijing Jia He Xing Chan Lubricant Oil Co, Ltd., Supreme Court of the People’s Republic of China (March 30, 2016).
The Chinese government has in recent years updated its intellectual property laws in an effort to target bad faith trademark filings. More
The Cayman Islands Trademarks Law, 2016, Design Rights Registration Law, 2016, and Patents and Trademarks (Amendment) Law, 2016 were implemented on August 1, 2017. Our detailed discussion of the salient features of the new trademark and design laws can be viewed here [December 2016] and here [September 2016].More