Olivier MANDEL was invited by the EU Commission to participate as a speaker at its Seminar organized in Milano (Italy) on October 1 2015

In the framework of EXPO Milano, the Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Commission (DG AGRI) organized a seminar titled « A common control culture for geographical Continuer la lectureOlivier MANDEL was invited by the EU Commission to participate as a speaker at its Seminar organized in Milano (Italy) on October 1 2015

The economic cost of intellectual property rights infringement in the cosmetics and personal care sector

The European Observatory on infringement of Intellectual Property Rights (hereafter the Observatory) recently published a very interesting study on the economic cost of IPR infringement in the cosmetics and personal Continuer la lectureThe economic cost of intellectual property rights infringement in the cosmetics and personal care sector

A one million Euro question : may the holder of a registered Community design bring infringement proceedings directly against the holder of a later registered Community design or may it do so only after obtaining a declaration of invalidity ?

On February 16, 2012, the European Court of Justice rendered a very important decision relating to European design law: this decision, like any other decision rendered by the European Court Continuer la lectureA one million Euro question : may the holder of a registered Community design bring infringement proceedings directly against the holder of a later registered Community design or may it do so only after obtaining a declaration of invalidity ?