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    Blog: Garrigues Intellectual Property Blog

    The Supreme Court confirms that a third party may not use the ZARA trademark.

    The Supreme Court has confirmed that the use of another’s trademark to identify the prize in an advertising campaign constitutes an act of trademark infringement and ordered the infringer to pay compensation for damages. A recent judgment from the Supreme Court has condemned Buongiorno for reproducing the ZARA trademark on a gift card offered as […] La entrada The Supreme Court confirms that a third party may not use the ZARA trademark. apareció primero en Intellectual and Industrial Property Blog - Garrigues.

    Blog: Patent 213

    Make Sure You Behave and Keep Those Hands Clean: How Deceit and Bad Table Manners Can Bite

    Last week in Luv n’ Care, Ltd. v. Laurain, the Federal Circuit put the lower court in time out and probably made Eazy-PZ, LLC (EZPZ) cry just a little bit harder. In this precedential decision involving U.S. Patent No. 9.462,903, the appellate panel vacated a Western District of Louisiana judgment of no inequitable conduct and... Continue Reading

    Blog: NY Patent Decisions Blog

    Judge Ho Calls Strike Three on Plaintiff’s Subpoena to Baseball Star Bryce Harper

    On April 10, 2024, Judge Dale E. Ho granted a motion to quash a third-party subpoena served on Major League Baseball player Bryce Harper in connection with a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Athalonz, LLC against Under Armour, Inc. in the Eastern District of Texas. In the patent litigation, Athalonz accused certain athletic footwear sold [...]

    Blog: Antitrust Update

    Merger Guidelines Provide Insight on DOJ and FTC Enforcement Priorities for 2024

    On December 18, 2023, The Federal Trade Commission and Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice concluded a nearly two-year process of updating both the horizontal and vertical merger guidelines with the release of the 2023 Merger Guidelines.  The new Merger Guidelines align closely with the objective—expressed by both FTC and DOJ—to expand the types [...]

    Blog: Pipeline Law

    Could Mexico’s Mid-Term Elections Signal a Return to Energy and Environmental Policy Rationality?

    (AMLO) and his Morena party will face greater hurdles to unwinding Mexico's 2013 Energy Reforms adopted by the former ruling party, the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI). Although retaining a majority in the Chamber of Deputies and gaining some new state governors, Morena lost its supermajority and, as a result, very likely also lost the opportunity to implement constitutional changes to reverse the 2013 Energy Reforms and achieve its goal of a nationalized energy sector in Mexico. The post Could Mexico’s Mid-Term Elections Signal a Return to Energy and Environmental Policy Rationali...

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