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On the importance of the meaning of signs when analysing the danger of confusion between two trademarks
According to article L.713-3 of the French Intellectual Property Code, in order to allow that a sign imitates an earlier trademark, a similarity must exist between the signs in question and the products or services must be identic...
Trademark, copyright and patent: how they differ?
Trademarks, copyrights and patents are three different legal instruments belonging to the umbrella term of intellectual property. Nevertheless, they differ significantly one from the other. Indeed, trademarks protect the source id...
Regulation No 2016/679
Regarding the future application of Regulation No 2016/679, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we would like to inform you that as a subscriber, a prospect, or a simple user, you are currently part of our mark...
Fraudulent invoices, a worrying trademark scam
Faced with cumbersome administrative procedures and numerous incoming letters, companies are facing a very worrying kind of fraud. This takes the form of fraudulent invoices from companies pretending to be official bodies domicile...
Unfair competition and domain names: enlightment by two French court decisions
A domain name enjoys protection, but when does it acquire such protection? Tribunal de Grande Instance of Nanterre, civil division, first chamber, November 3, 2016 The Tribunal de Grande Instance of Nanterre points out that ...
Intellectual Property and Dispute Resolution Mechanisms – why such mechanisms are not being used to their full potential
Business life has been greatly affected by technology. Technology is crucial in every sector and today businesses are ready to pay good money to give themselves an advantage, so much that many more businesses which procure technol...
"New GTLDs": where are we?
At the end of 2016, the Afnic, the French Registry, made a report concerning the market of domain names in the world. Thus, since 2014, more than a thousand new gTLDs arrived on the market, in the image of the famous "dotbrand"(...
The Importance of a Case Management System
What is a Case Management System? A case management system is a system which helps to consolidate all the information that is pertinent to a case. The system also supplies any and all the tools that may be necessary for a follow ...
Cloud-based docketing systems : a more secure and efficient solution for IP attorneys
IP lawyers today are confronted with specific logistical problems they have difficulty solving on their own and with ordinary office resources. While law has always been a field where mindfulness is a compulsory part of th...
What is hot about cold cloud storage
Cloud computing is becoming widespread among businesses of all shapes and sizes. Businesses are always looking for newer, cheaper and safer ways to store data, and it appears that the cloud now fits this growing need. One ...
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On the importance of the meaning of signs when analysing the danger of confusion between two trademarks
According to article L.713-3 of the French Intellectual Property Code, in order to allow that a sign imitates an earlier trademark, a similarity must exist between the signs in question and the products or services must be identic...
Trademark, copyright and patent: how they differ?
Trademarks, copyrights and patents are three different legal instruments belonging to the umbrella term of intellectual property. Nevertheless, they differ significantly one from the other. Indeed, trademarks protect the source id...
Regulation No 2016/679
Regarding the future application of Regulation No 2016/679, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we would like to inform you that as a subscriber, a prospect, or a simple user, you are currently part of our mark...
Fraudulent invoices, a worrying trademark scam
Faced with cumbersome administrative procedures and numerous incoming letters, companies are facing a very worrying kind of fraud. This takes the form of fraudulent invoices from companies pretending to be official bodies domicile...
Unfair competition and domain names: enlightment by two French court decisions
A domain name enjoys protection, but when does it acquire such protection? Tribunal de Grande Instance of Nanterre, civil division, first chamber, November 3, 2016 The Tribunal de Grande Instance of Nanterre points out that ...