Intellectual property: a core asset of your company
Protecting, defending and exploiting intellectual property rights is an increasingly complex and crucial task in a world where the pace of change is accelerating and the shift is away from the material and towards the intangible. Cabinet Beau de Loménie's team of qualified patent and trademark attorneys will assist you in protecting your most valuable assets: innovation and creation.
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18-04-2013
Trademark law reform is on the way
In order to make trademark registration systems more accessible and more effective for companies, the European Commission has published three…
22-03-2013
The sale of drugs on the internet: Act II
By order dated 14 February 2013, the interim relief judge decided to suspend the execution of Article L. 5125-34 of the “Code de la…
12-02-2013
The sale of medicaments on the internet now possible in France.
France has now incorporated into French law the European Union Directive 2011/62/UE 8 June 2011 amending Directive 2001/83/EC on the…
23-01-2013
From research tax credit to innovation tax credit
The French Budget Law for 2013 (Law No. 2012-1509 of 29 December 2012) includes an Article 71 which extends the existing Research Tax Credit…
13-12-2012
Unitary Patent Approved by the European Parliament
In adopting rules related to the Unitary Patent and the Unified European Patent Court Tuesday morning in Strasbourg, the European Union (EU)…
14-11-2012
Hit two trademarks with one use
The use obligation, under penalty of revocation, is an essential limit to the proliferation of unused or partially used trademarks on the…
"U.S. Pat. 6,267,346", marked in small characters and molded on the bottom of a document holder. "U.S. Pat. No. 6,666,420", this mark…
18-09-2012
The right to use a .fr domain name assigned by AFNIC is an…
The Tribunal Administratif de Montreuil (Administrative Court of Montreuil) in a decision dated 9 February 2012, recently published, ruled for…
12-07-2012
European patent with unitary effect and European Patent Court:…
An invention can be protected in Europe by a national patent or European patent. After it is issued by the European Patent Office, a patent…
13-06-2012
Activities of service providers in the information society,…
Several recent court decisions have clarified the nature, in law, of the activities of service providers on the Internet, and the related…
16-05-2012
Forum Shopping and the Proper Administration of Justice
In private international law, rules of jurisdiction in civil and commercial matters, set out in EU Regulation 44/2001, are organized around…
14-03-2012
ACTA: A time for negotiations, now a time for signature?
Following confidential negotiations, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is now ready for signature by every country which…
07-02-2012
Application of the Right to Information, granted against an…
On December 13, 2011 the Cour de Cassation (the French Supreme Court) handed down, a decision (No. 10-28.088) regarding the application of the…
18-01-2012
Generic drugs: a bitter medicine to swallow for IP Rights Owners!
Law 2011-2012 of December 29, 2011, relating to the reinforcement of the safety of drugs and medicinal products has modified the Code de la…
17-11-2011
SYRELI (SYstème de REsolution des Litiges ie DIspute…
"The internal regulations of the French Association for Internet naming in Cooperation (AFNIC) are approved as they define the system of…
01-11-2011
Finland accedes to the London Agreement
Finland has accessed the London Agreement with effect as of 1 November 2011. This Agreement is thus now in force in seventeen EPC contracting…
11-10-2011
Trade Mark and design: a break-up or a developing relationship?
A ruling of the ECFI dated October 6th, 2011 just ended the Bang & Olufsen saga that has opposed this company to the OHIM since…
21-09-2011
Refilling of gas bottles by a competitor: Trademark infringement?
When a container first sold by Company A, whose shape is protected by a three-dimensional trademark, is used by Company B to be refilled with…
12-09-2011
Focus on the Regulation on Domain Names.
The introduction of the new French legal regime for domain names provided for by the Law of March 22, 2011, was partially postponed up until…
09-09-2011
Refilling of gas bottles by a competitor: Trademark infringement?
When a container first sold by Company A, whose shape is protected by a three-dimensional trademark, is used by Company B to be refilled with…
21-07-2011
The « one click » did not « tilt »
Allowing validation of a purchase on the internet with one single click from online shopping consists in applying the already known cookies…
17-06-2011
What is the difference between advertisement and information?…
As everyone knows, the advertising of medicines is highly regulated, and even prohibited for medicines that are issued on medical…
01-06-2011
The new legal regime for domain names will be effective in…
The new provisions related to the status of TLD domain names regarding French national territory have been implemented in a Law, which has a…
29-03-2011
The plan to create a unified European patent litigation…
On 8 March 2011 the CJEU (Court of Justice of the European Union) issued its opinion on the envisaged agreement to create a unified…
16-03-2011
Tragic events in Japan: remedies in case of non-observance of…
In view of the current tragic events in Japan, we would like to draw your attention to specific measures that are provided for in the European…
Following the European Court of Justice’s rulings in the cases Class International (C-405/03) and Montex Holdings (C-281/05), it is…
20-08-2010
News Alert - June 2010
Patentability of Software: The European Patent Office upholds its case law in an opinion of the Enlarged Board of Appeals On October 23,…
01-05-2010
News Alert – May 2010
MODIFICATIONS OF THE FEES FOR COMMUNITY TRADEMARKS AND EUROPEAN PATENT Substantial cut in costs for the protection of Community trademarks. …
