Latest Reported European Merchandise Order Cases

The Apr 2004 final result of Sweet & Maxwell's European Trade Mark Reports has straight off been published, a picayune ahead of time. This final result leads amongst the Danish Supreme Court conclusion inwards Paranova 5 Boehringer Ingelheim on the application of the doctrine of necessity to diverse forms of repackaging of parallel traded pharma products, including "one-to-one" repackaging in addition to "window labels". Other of import decisions reported include

• the OHIM Third Board of Appeal conclusion inwards Karl Fazer 5 USP Brands that Republic of Finland is non a substantial business office of the European Community;

• 2 meaty WIPO Arbitrations, i on the legality of a parma-schinken.com website from which both PARMA ham in addition to other products were sold, the other on whether the purpose of britishmeat.org is objectionable, given that the BRITISH MEAT merchandise reach was a figurative one, non a give-and-take mark;

• the Court of First Instance conclusion inwards Unilever 5 OHIM on the registrability of speckled tablets.

Next calendar month the ETMR runs its particular INTA issue, inwards which roughly of the juiciest merchandise reach cases are reported.

If you lot come upward across whatever interesting merchandise reach representative that you'd similar to come across reported, wherever inwards Europe it comes from, delight don't hesitate to contact the IPKat's masters, Jeremy in addition to Ilanah (who are the Editor in addition to Deputy Editor of the ETMR respectively) here.