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Posted in Art. 8(1) EnforD, banks, CJEU, enforcement, trade marks

New CJEU Case: Are Banks Required to Disclose the Identity of their Customers to Trade Mark Holders?
Some readers might remember my blog post on a Dutch decision BREIN v. ING, which basically asked the question whether banks are required to disclose the identity of their customers to copyright holders. As I indicated already in that blog post, German Federal Supreme Court (BGH) was hearing very similar trade mark case at the
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Posted in copyright, courts, designs, enforcement, industrial property, patents, SK, SPC, trade marks, utility models

How frequent is IP litigation in Slovakia?
EISi, an non-university academic research center for IP & IT, is now working on the complex proposal that aims at improving IP specialization of Slovak judges. Obviously, when considering the impact of the proposed changes, we also had to have a look at the number of litigated cases before Slovak courts. Huťko is glad to
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Posted in Auskunftsanspruch, CJEU, copyright, enforcement, personal data, privacy

CJEU: Bonnier Audio – Quite Disappointment
CJEU today rendered its highly awaited decision in Bonnier Audio C-164/10. Author of these lines is however *very very* disappointed by the outcome. It seems to me that the Court of Justice of European Union, does not realize its ‘constitutional role’ for the member states. The entire decision is pretty much just excerpts from the
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Posted in e-commerce, enforcement, FR, hosting, safe harbours

France: Dailymotion & Fuzz – Covered by Hosting Safe Harbour
Very exciting news coming via EDRi gram. On 17 February 2011 the French Court of Cassation recognized the hosting status of Dailymotion and Fuzz.fr. The court also confirmed, in relation to the Amen website case, that the judges had to verify that the content withdrawal requests observed the requirements of LCEN (loi pour la confiance
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Posted in community involvement, enforcement, EU, intellectual property

Europe Need to Hear Your Voice
There are two important things I would like to draw your attention to. Firstly, prominent European Academics composed a brief letter analysing ACTA provisions and now they are calling for your important assistance. Please take few seconds to symbolically support their effort for balanced IP rights enforcement in EU by signing here. Secondly, European Commission
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