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…

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Belgium : 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…

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Merkinschrijving 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…

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CJEU 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…

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Benefits (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…

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