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  • Patents and Utility Models: Supplementary Protection Certificates

    United Kingdom 14.04.1998
    Swiss marketing authorisations can start the clock for SPCs Swiss marketing authorisations for pharmaceuticals also cover Liechtenstein. Swiss marketing authorisations can be obtained quite quickly, but...
  • Copyright, Designs and Databases: The Database Directive

    United Kingdom 14.04.1998
    1998 sees the implementation of Directive 96/9/EC (the Database Directive) in Austria, Denmark and Germany. Databases are defined as any collection of works, data or other independent elements which are...
  • Copyright, Designs and Databases: Copying from the Internet

    United Kingdom 14.04.1998
    Denmark An interim injunction has been obtained against a person downloading recorded music from the Internet. The importance of the decision is that the Court acknowledged the record producer's exclusive...
  • Patents and Utility Models: Community Patent Green Paper

    United Kingdom 14.04.1998
    The Commission has published a Green Paper reviewing the idea of a unitary Community-wide patent. This proposal was originally (in 1975) for a Community Patent Convention, but this has never been ratified,...
  • Trade marks, copyright and related rights: Parallel imports and exhaustion of rights - EU or international?

    United Kingdom 14.04.1998
    Parallel Imports and Exhaustion of Rights: EU or International? Trade Marks, Copyright and related rights The European Court of Justice is now having to decide whether to uphold international or EU exhaustion...
  • IP Competition: Block exemption extensions

    United Kingdom 14.04.1998
    Both of the block exemption regulations for specialisation agreements and for research and development agreements (giving automatic exemption under Article 85(3) of the EC Treaty to these types of agreements...
  • Copyright, Designs and Databases: Encrypted services

    United Kingdom 14.04.1998
    Denmark Illegal copying of decoding equipment and smart cards is severely threatening the existence of encrypted satellite channels (pay channels). To remedy this Denmark plans to make unauthorised copying...
  • Copyright, Designs and Databases: Designs and design right

    United Kingdom 14.04.1998
    Again the story here is of steps towards the harmonisation of laws across the member states of the EU, but progress is variable in the many different topics covered by the broad heading of copyright....
  • Harmonisation of Trade Mark Laws

    United Kingdom 14.04.1998
    Trade Marks Infringement: "Likelihood of confusion on the part of the public" The European Court of Justice has recently decided how the infringement provision of Article 5.1(b) of The Community Trade...
  • IP Competition: Counterfeit goods

    United Kingdom 14.04.1998
    Council Regulation (EC) No 3295/94 of 22 December 1994, which lays down measures to prohibit the release for free circulation, export or re-export of counterfeit and pirated goods (the Counterfeit Goods...