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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 Right to Information contained in Article L. 716-7-1 of the Code de la Propriété Intellectuelle (French Intellectual Property Code), which implemented in French Law Article 8 of…

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 Santé Publique (CSP – French Public Health Code). It includes two articles which affect the extent of the exclusive rights of intellectual property right owners. The law brings in a new…

"The internal regulations of the French Association for Internet naming in Cooperation (AFNIC) are approved as they define the system of dispute resolution." This is the text of the decree published in the Official Gazette of November 3rd, 2011 signed by the Minister in charge of electronic communications. Named "SYRELI", the system will…

Finland has accessed the London Agreement with effect as of 1 November 2011. This Agreement is thus now in force in seventeen EPC contracting states. From a practical viewpoint, for European patents granted with effect for Finland on or after 1 November 2011, no Finnish translation of the European patent specification need be supplied if…

A ruling of the ECFI dated October 6th, 2011 just ended the Bang & Olufsen saga that has opposed this company to the OHIM since 2003 regarding the registration, as a three-dimensional trademark, of its well-known BeoLab 8000 loudspeaker’s shape (opposite). In a decision dated September 22th, 2005, the first board of appeal…