Pharrel Williams og Robin Thicke, der står bag 2013s mest sælgende sang på verdensplan, ”Blurred Lines”, har endeligt tabt sagen mod Marvin Gayes familie og indehavere af ophavsrettighederne til hans musik.
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On December 18, 2018, the Supreme Court issued a very principled decision on the use of copyrighted art as a directive in the marketing of food. Background The reason for the case is that since 2012, COOP has used Kasper Würtz service, bowls and plates as part of packages containing, among other things, frozen edamame
KH Würtz wins Supreme Court case on the use of applied arts as directing in marketing Read More »
January 1, 2019, the new Trademark Act came into force ‘. The law implements Directive 2015/2436 / EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2015 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks. According to the legislator, the purpose of the amendment is to
New trademark law passed Read More »
BREXIT – Good News for Holders of Registered EU Trademarks and Designs There has long been uncertainty about how the UK authorities would handle Brexit in relation to EU trademark and design rights. Recently, focus has been on the tumultuous process that has taken place in parliament, and now 1½ months away from Brexit day
BREXIT – something new Read More »
The Maritime and Commercial Court has today ruled in the first lawsuit concerning the protection of the well-known Omaggio vase series from Kähler. The case involved the sale of a number of vases that had been produced by the Danish company Bovictus A / S and sold in, among other things, COOP stores around the
The Omaggio series is protected by copyright, the Maritime and Commercial Court states Read More »
England has long been a child of pain for Danish design companies, as it has been legal to produce and sell copies of design classics in England. Most of these furniture has landed in Denmark, and has damaged the Danish furniture industry. This has now come a very big step closer to being history. In
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With the ruling in the so-called Cofemel decision, the EU courts hold that designs are protected by copyright if the appearance is the result of designers’ creative choices. This has settled the demands that so far many countries have made that the use of art can only be protected by copyright in the case of
Landmark EU judgment creates better conditions for copyright enforcement across the EU Read More »
On 26 November 2019, the EU acceded to the Lisbon Agreement, which creates an international system for the protection of geographical indications of origin. Geographical indications of origin have so far been protected by the Paris Convention and it has been up to the individual Member States to implement rules in their trademark laws in
International system for registering geographical indications of origin is now a reality Read More »
In a case involving the copying of several television products, the Maritime and Commercial Court ruled that not only directors and ultimate owners of a company can become personally liable for IP violations, the responsibility can now also be extended to senior executives who have been involved in the decision to violate. These are new