Tuesday, March 17, 2020
The Italian Supreme Court rules on parasitism and below cost sales, analysing the existing links with competition law notions, such as the abuse of a dominant position.
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Friday, March 13, 2020
The Court of Justice on the correct definition of "accepted principles of morality" under EU trade mark law.
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Thursday, February 27, 2020
The Italian Competition Authority on the assessment of contractual practices in the national wheat seeds market. Fines issued against the exclusive licensee of the "Cappelli" seeds, a wheat variety belonging to traditional, uncommon grains.
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Monday, February 24, 2020
The Court of Justice on the rules about public access to documents, in a case concerning the request for access to a medicinal product's MA file. The Court excluded the application of the general presumption of confidentiality.
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Thursday, February 20, 2020
Trade marks cannot be declared wholly or partially invalid for lack of sufficient clarity and precision with regard to the specification of goods and services. Applying to register a mark with no intention to use, or intending to use it only for some goods and services may amount to bad faith.
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Monday, February 10, 2020
The EU Court of Justice rules on the competition law aspects of agreements settling patent disputes between the patent owner and the manufacturers of the corresponding generics drugs.
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Monday, February 3, 2020
The Italian Supreme Court ruled in a new plant variety infringement matter, confirming the Court of Appeal’s conclusions that the variety had been infringed through the cultivation of the plant without the prior authorisation of the IP holders. The decision includes an interesting analysis of Courts duties and powers regarding invalidity claims of new varieties and IP titles in general.
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Friday, January 31, 2020
Transfer of personal data towards third countries: the AG suggests that Commission Decision 2010/87/EU, establishing standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data to processors established in third countries, is compliant with Art. 7, 8 and 47 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, as it includes mechanisms ensuring that unlawful transfers can be suspended or prohibited, thus ensuring protection of the data subjects’ fundamental rights.
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Monday, January 27, 2020
The Italian Supreme Court on legal standing in patent invalidity proceedings: it is mandatory that also subjects who transferred their rights on the patent be joined to invalidity proceedings, since they are recorded in the register as owners, pursuant to art. 122, paragraph 4, IPC.
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Monday, January 13, 2020
Copyright exhaustion does not apply to e-books, whose resale is to be considered as a communication to the public – pursuant to art. 3 of Directive EC 2001/29 - not as a means of distribution of the work – under art. 4 of the same directive.
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