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IP weekly highlights—9 May 2019

Published on: 09 May 2019
Published by a LexisNexis IP expert

Table of contents

  • Copyright
  • The impact of the new Copyright Directive in the digital single market
  • New guidance sets out impact of Marrakesh Directive on UK copyright law
  • Patents
  • Patents Court holds Allergan’s bimatoprost formulation patent invalid (Allergan v Aspire)
  • Trade marks and passing off
  • Court of Justice rules that figurative sign may, in principle, evoke PDO (Queso Manchego)
  • Passing off claim succeeds in the IPEC (Asian Business Publications v British Asian Achievers Awards)
  • Internet
  • Airbnb—not a real estate agent (Airbnb Ireland v Hôtelière Turenne SAS)
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Article summary

This week’s edition of IP weekly highlights includes analysis of the new Copyright Directive in the digital single market, the Court of Justice’s decision in Queso Manchego v Industrial Quesera Cuquerella on designations of origin for agricultural products and foodstuffs and evocative figurative signs, and the Patents Court’s judgment in Allergan v Aspire on the validity of a bimatroprost formulation patent. It also includes updates on the IPO guidance on impact of Marrakesh Directive on UK copyright law.

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