Infringement
Why the authorities are taking a tougher stance on trademark infringement in the food industry
By Ai-Leen Lim | Posted on April 4, 2018
Thirteen defendants have been criminally prosecuted in Shanghai for selling goods under illegally manufactured labels, reinforcing the tough stance that the authorities have been taking in counterfeit food cases. The cases On January 11 2018, the Intellectual Property Trial Division of Shanghai Pudong New Area People’s Court delivered judgment in six cases involving trademarks for...
Tags: china, criminal prosecution, fruit, Infringement, labels, Trademark, trademark infringement
Directors Beware: New Swedish judgment regarding personal liability for patent infringement
By AWA | Posted on December 8, 2017
The Swedish Patent and Market Court (PMD) announced an interesting judgment concerning the Board of Directors’ personal liability for patent infringement in October this year. The company Power Tools sued the company Royex, its chairman and president for patent infringement of cartridges for cracking stones. PMD found that the product “Royex Generation II” constitutes patent...
Tags: board of directors, directors, Infringement, patents, personal liability, sweden
Re-registered domain names used for trademark infringements
By AWA | Posted on December 5, 2017
The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) has recently released a report based on phase two of a study concerning intellectual property infringements online. In the first phase, a qualitative study was conducted to investigate the different methods used for such infringements. It was followed up by the second phase, a quantitative study, in which...
Tags: domain name, domains, e-commerce, e-shop, EUIPO, Infringement, online, report
The dark side of the Internet
By AWA | Posted on July 12, 2013
On Friday the 14 June 2013 we participated in a seminar arranged by the Danish PTO in corporation with the Confederation of Danish Industry on the topic “IP infringements online”. The seminar aimed at discussing how to protect against infringement of one’s IP-rights on the Internet, and moreover a discussion of counterfeit, its extent and...
Design just as important as technical issues in Apple vs. Samsung verdict
By AWA | Posted on August 31, 2012
The dispute between Apple and Samsung on smartphones and tablets has received much public attention. Recently, a landmark verdict was reached when a California based court decided in Apple’s favour. Samsung now has to pay at least one billion US dollars to Apple, who also has sought a sales ban in the USA on a...
Tags: design protection, Infringement, Patent, Software, USA
Counterfeit Goods in the EU – Troubling News but No Surprise
By AWA | Posted on August 14, 2012
On July 24, the European Commission published a press release concerning its report on seizure of counterfeit goods during 2011 in the EU (see the full report). It turns out that seizure of suspected counterfeit goods increased some 15 % compared to 2010. Top categories are medicines (24 %), packaging material (21 %) and cigarettes...
Tags: china, counterfeits, EU, Infringement, IP rights, Piracy, Trademark
Getting Personal in Sweden: Liability of Directors, Officers, and Owners for their Company’s IP Infringement
By Robin Berzelius | Posted on March 23, 2012
1. Introduction Picture a scenario where a plaintiff in an IP infringement case in Sweden has received a well earned final ruling in its favor, or perhaps gotten a preliminary injunction issued against an accused infringer. As the plaintiff is celebrating its success, it receives news that the infringer recently emptied its warehouses of infringing...
Trademark Infringements in Social Networks
By AWA | Posted on August 18, 2011
Trademark Infringements in Social Networks Last year, in 2010, Facebook passed 500 million users. That’s more than the population of USA, Canada and Mexico put together. It is safe to say that Facebook and other social networks are very powerful and important tools of communication in many different aspects, affecting most things from your personal...
Tags: Infringement, Internet, Media, Social Networks, Trademark
Counterfeit pharmaceuticals case settled without main hearing
By AWA | Posted on June 1, 2011
In April 2010 Eli Lilly and Company (“Lilly”), the manufacturer of the erectile dysfunction pharmaceutical Cialis, was informed that the Swedish customs had ceased a consignment of products marked and/or shaped in such a way that it was suspected to infringe the intellectual property rights of Lilly. The consignment was addressed to an individual, herein...
Tags: EEA, Infringement, Pharmaceuticals
Centocor (Johnson & Johnson) awarded the largest patent verdict in U.S. history
By AWA | Posted on July 6, 2009
1.67 billion U.S. dollars, $1.16 billion in lost profit, and $504 million in royalties. That’s what Centocor is awarded in damages for infringement of their patents. On Monday, June 29, a jury found that Abbott Laboratories had willfully infringed two patents covering antibodies against tumor necrosis factor owned by Centocor. Abbott’s drug Humira was found...
Tags: Infringement, Patent, verdict
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