Lecture, 2011

Trademark law, what's next?

Summary

Presentation given at an IP seminar on 30 September 2011 on upcoming issues in trade mark law, through references then pending before the CJEU: genuine use of a Community trade mark used in one Member State only (Leno Merken, C-149/11), bad faith re-registrations, Fidelio, keyword advertising and the place of use of an AdWord (Wintersteiger, C-523/10), slogans (Smart Technologies, C-311/11) and the time of filing (Genesis v Boys Toys, C-190/10).

Reference

H. Haouideg, "Trademark law, what's next?", IP seminar, 2011.

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