mylife – Tech Notes

China: Unusual use of the Trademarks (Pictures)

Huťko is temporarily living in a Guangzhou down-town. Everything around him was built just several years or even months ago. The skyscrapers with numberless apartments are brand new, and so are the shops surrounding them. When walking the streets you can still grasp the atmosphere of the building site and study the signs of this

Posted in Court of Justice, CR, mylife, safe harbours, SK, trade marks

Brief Summary of April / May / June and Beyonds

Huťko is back! Though he actually never left 🙂 As you may have already noticed, last few months were more “quiet” than usual. This is due to the endless final exams period that was “entertaining” Huťko and consuming his entire time. Nevertheless this period is over, Huťko finally entered lawyer-dom and you can look forward

What will year 2011 bring us?

Huťko would like wish happy New Year to all of his readers. He hopes that 2011 will bring you as much of joy in your life as possible. Huťko likes this quote by Edith Lovejoy Pierce. “We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The

Posted in EISI, mylife

European Information Society Institute – EISI

Dear readers, Huťko sincerely apologize for almost four weeks-long silence but there was something really exciting he was working on. That something, as a headline already suggests, is European Information Society Institute (EISI). EISI is a new Slovak non-profit organization devoted to assist better information society to grow. In other words, EISI will be the

Posted in mylife, search engines, trade marks

Keyword advertising presentation

Huťko is really honored for the opportunity to deliver a short presentation on the keyword advertising he had at the Leibniz University in Hannover during his Summer School on IT law. As promised therein, here are the resources. It is really symbolic that Google announced change of the AdWords trademark policy in Europe on the

Posted in intellectual property, mylife, mytravels

WIPO Summer School

Having lemon flavored BECK´s at the Mannheim´s Bahnhof, Huťko has finally managed to save some time for his blog readers. WIPO Summer School on Intellectual Property 2010 held in Geneva is irreversibly over, but pleasant feelings and new friendships will hopefuly remain. This post is going to be more about what the

Posted in mylife, unfair comptetition

Misleading Ad Copy Examples

Last week Huťko successfully finished his IP distance learning course in order to get to WIPO´s Summer School in Geneva. Inspired by course Huťko decided to share two really nice food examples that were included in the unfair competition module. Dear readers, would you consider following to be misleading according to your national laws? Example

Posted in copyright, CR, mylife, search engines, SK

My Thesis about the Copyright and Internet Search is Ready for the Thesis Defence

I have to say, i almost hated this piece before today´s final submitting. I guess it´s a usual experience of each author, isn´t it ? So, for all of you my folks interested in copyright limitations and exception from Czech and Slovak perspective (mostly), please refer to my thesis The legal aspects of search engines.

Posted in mylife

Next Week in Hannover

Huťko assumes that every IT&IP enthusiast is aware of the conference taking place in Hannover next week. Commons, Users, Service Providers – International Conference brings together astounding amount of IT&IP scholars. Thus making it incredibly inviting event. If any of Huťko´s readers plans to come, it would be a great pleasure for me to meet

Posted in blogging, mylife

New Year´s Resolution

I´ve started my blog two years ago. Encoutered some interest, but also dissinterest in IT&IP law since then. However i´ve learnt a lot. Not just by composing the posts, but also “absorbing” reactions in the online or the offline world. While blogging in Slovak is much easier (not just because of language), on the other