Overview

Stephenson Harwoods regular intellectual property bulletin looking the last half-year of cases in the fields of branding, content, design and inventions.

We consider:

- L’Oreal v Bellure – comparison lists and imitations/replicas

- Wellcome v Paranova - cobranding and de-branding of repackaged imports

- Silberquelle v Maselli-Strickmode - use of marks on promotional goods

- Copad v Christian Dior – invoking trade mark rights against a licensee

- Interflora v Marks and Spencer and L’Oreal v eBay - ad words trade mark infringement

- JN Dairies Limited v Johal Dairies Limited and another – invoice information confidential

- Vestergaard Frandsen v Bestnet Europe - the scope of a final injunction

- re AT&T Knowledge Ventures LP/In re CVON Innovations - obtaining patents for computer programs or business methods

- Virgin Atlantic v Premium Aircraft Interiors Virgin’s - unregistered design right and patent infringement

- Generics v H Lundbeck - product patent claims v product by process claims

- Dyson v Samsung - restatement of the tests of novelty, obviousness and patent amendments

- Kelly and Chiu v GE Healthcare - the first reported employee invention compensation claim

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