Berichten getagd ‘CJEU’
Owners of Facebook Fan Pages warned by EU Court of Justice (Loyens & Loeff)
Author: Stéphanie De Smedt (Loyens & Loeff) Date of publication: 11/07/2018 In its judgement of 5 June 2018, the EU Court of Justice (“CJEU”) had a clear message for owners of Facebook Fan Pages: because of your choice to use Facebook’s social network for your marketing activities, you are jointly responsible together with Facebook for the…
Lees meerThe High Court on the right to be forgotten. Precise terms of delisting order to be finalised (GAVC Law)
Auteur: Geert Van Calster (GAVC Law) Publicatiedatum: 24/04/2018 In [2018] EWHC 799 the High Court granted one and refused another delisting request, otherwise known as the ‘right to be forgotten’ following the CJEU’s judgment in Google Spain. Of interest to data protection lawyers Of interest to data protection lawyers is Warby J’s excellent review of the…
Lees meerBelgium : No Strict Liability for the Holder of an IP Right Enforcing a Descriptive Seizure (NautaDutilh)
Authors: Florence Verhoestraete, Tanguy de Haan en Christel Brion (NautaDutilh) Date of publication: 29/03/2018 On 28 February 2018, the Brussels Court of Appeal rendered a decision in the Snowfall case on the issue of liability for harm caused by a so-called descriptive seizure (saisie-contrefaçon). The facts of the case can be summarised as follows. In 2010, the proprietor…
Lees meerMerkinschrijving kleurencombinatie Red Bull nietig verklaard (Novagraaf)
Auteur: Ghislaine van Lieshout (Novagraaf) Publicatiedatum: 11/12/2017 Red Bull heeft in 2002 en 2010 Uniemerkaanvragen ingediend voor de gecombineerde kleuren blauw en zilver voor energiedranken. Het Gerecht van de Europese Unie (hierna: het Gerecht EU) heeft deze registraties onlangs nietig verklaard, omdat de merken onvoldoende nauwkeurig zijn weergegeven. Achtergrond Het merk Red Bull met het logo van een…
Lees meerCJEU Upholds Prohibition on the Sale of Luxury Goods via Branded Third-party Internet Platforms (NautaDutilh)
Authors: Herman Speyart, Anne Marie Verschuur, Tanguy de Haan en Vincent Wellens (NautaDutilh) Date of publication: 07/12/2017 The Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) has just ruled, in the context of a selective distribution system for luxury goods, that contractual clauses prohibiting authorised distributors from selling those goods on branded third-party Internet platforms can be compatible with…
Lees meerBenefits (and some limitations) of Registered Community Designs : CJEU judgement in Nintendo case (Koan Law Firm)
Authors: Christine De Keersmaeker and Dietger Glorieux (Koan Law Firm) Date of publication: 13/10/2017 Introduction Recently, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) delivered its judgement in a case between Nintendo and BigBen Interactive (joined cases C-24/16 and C-25/16). The judgement is particularly interesting and demonstrates some of the benefits and limitations of Registered Community Designs…
Lees meerEU Advocate General in favour of finding copyright infringement by indexing site The Pirate Bay (Hogan Lovells)
The cases that deal with the meaning of “communication to the public” continue: in a current reference for a preliminary ruling, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) will have to decide whether the operators of websites that index content available on peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, such as The Pirate Bay, infringe copyright when there is no…
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