Lush smells success in keyword infringement battle
Just as a tree grows and blossoms with age, so too do principles of law. That is clearly apparent from the latest High Court judgment in Cosmetic Warriors Ltd and […]
Just as a tree grows and blossoms with age, so too do principles of law. That is clearly apparent from the latest High Court judgment in Cosmetic Warriors Ltd and […]
The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki examines the theory that aggregated wisdom of everyday people can prove far more insightful and accurate than that of individuals acting alone, even […]
The invention of the world wide web in 1989 coincided with the harmonisation of the European Union’s trade mark laws. At that time, the possibility that advertisements could be interactive, […]
Evidence gathered by surveys is often treated with caution. And if some of the responses given on the Family Fortunes, a long-running British game show, that hesitant approach is not misplaced (“name […]
The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) has ruled in the Dutch keyword advertising case of Portakabin v Primakabin. In this case the goods were legitimate but the […]
In Die BergSpechte, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the ECJ) has ruled on when the purchase of keywords similar to a registered trade mark and which trigger advertisements shall […]
The Court of Justice of the European Union’s judgment in Google France was released today. This is the first of a series of cases relating to the use of keywords […]
In May 2008, Google, the UK’s dominant search engine provider with a greater than a 90% market share, changed its policy of monitoring the sale of brand names. This is […]