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Following confidential negotiations, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is now ready for signature by every country which participated to its negotiation, and then by any other member of the WTO (World Trade Organization) once it is implemented. This new Agreement, whose final draft was signed by the Executive…

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…

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…

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…