Posted in copyright, CR, injunctions, intellectual property

Messing Up With ‘Krteček’
Czech server Aktualne.cz reports that a toy producer, and exclusive licensee, who is producing various goods depicting main character from the Czech cartoon ‘The Mole’ (Krteček) (on the right) just won the case before Supreme Court of Czech republic (23 Cdo 2500/2010) initiated against a company which was selling the confusingly similar toys without any license from
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Posted in injunctions, Liability of ISPs, safe harbours

European Cases on Ordering ISPs to Block Certain Websites
In the last few months, Huťko noticed exponential rise of the cases that demanded access providers to render certain infringing websites inaccessible to its subscribers. The legal basis is usually national counterpart of the Art. 8(3) of the InfoSoc directive, which provides that “Member States shall ensure that rightholders are in a position to apply
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Posted in Court of Justice, intellectual property, patents, trade marks

Five Interesting & Quite New CJEU Cases
Some recent and interesting IT&IP cases from Luxemburg. Pierre Fabre Dermo-Cosmétique C‑439/09. This relatively unknown decision is actually one of the most important developments of the competition law when it comes to the internet. With AG prof. Mazák, Third Chamber of the Court of Justice held that Article 101(1) TFEU must be interpreted as meaning that, in
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Posted in Court of Justice, DE, ISP, Liability of ISPs, safe harbours

BGH & Two ISP Liability Cases
This week, Bundesgerichtshof decided two very interesting cases that both concern liability of internet service providers. The first, deals with liability of German domain name authority  – DENIC and second with liability of Google for the blog posts published by its users on blogging platform Blogger (the one that Huťko writes his posts on). In
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