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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

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GA’s Opinion in Inteflora

General Advocate delivered his opinion in Interflora C-323/09 this morning. Huťko is highliting only the second part of “executive summary” which concerns application of Article 5(2). Article 5(2) of Directive 89/104 and Article 9(1)(c) of Regulation No 40/94 must be interpreted as meaning that the use of a sign as a keyword in an internet

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Keyword Advertising Event in Brno

Huťko has a great tip for all “keyword” enthusiasts. Institute of Law and Technology of Masaryk University in Brno (Czech republic) cordially invites you to attend a workshop: “Making Money by Riding on the Coattails of the Reputation of the Trademarks of Others OR an Inventive Business Model That Happens to Reveal the Flaws of

Another Keyword Advertising Reference – Wintersteiger

It looks like keyword advertising “saga” is not over yet. Court of Justice just received another keyword advertising preliminary reference from a national court, namely C-523/10 Wintersteiger (not on the Curia’s website yet – see IPO). This time it concerns international private law, more specifically interpretation of the Brussels I. regulation which sets jurisdiction

GA’s Opinion in L´Oreal v. Ebay

Huťko is very excited about the opinion of Advocate General Jääskinen in L´Oreal v. Ebay C-324/09 published this Thursday (9th of December). The case is so complex and deals with so many interesting questions that Huťko deems it even more intriguing reading than Google France C-236/08. So far Huťko has identified these interesting (sometimes hidden)

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The First Supreme Court Decision on Domain Names

Huťko is happy to announce the existence of the first domain name ruling rendered by Supreme Court of Slovak republic (Najvyšší Súd SR). It is a usual trademark dispute with really unusually filed action. Huťko apologize for not attaching decision itself (3 Obo 197/06), but the Supreme Court decided to sent him only paper version.

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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

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My Charts on the Scope of Trademark Holder Rights

I am currently working on a short article concerning keyword advertising. This picture could possibly be it´s attached illustration on the side. Please let me know if you have any suggestions on how to make it more clear for a reader and which of those two would you recommend. or should I use this one

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The Court of Justice Speaks Out on the AdWords

Though there are plenty of duties i should be carrying out at the moment, i had to read the Luis Vuitton vs. Google C-236/08 decision from this morning. It conveys new thoughts on the trade mark but also on the e-commerce law. Therefore making it a landmark decision in the field. I wouldn´t express it

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Likelihood of Confusion & Association – An Insight to Fresh Slovak Trademark Law

As I previously reported yet in 2009, new Slovak trademark law have entered into the force on the 1st of January. According to explanatory report to new Trademark Act No. 506/2009, one of the embodied changes is the replacement of term ‘interchangeability’ by ‘similarity’. This was done by copying and pasting trademark directive (hereinafter as