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term='opposizioni'/><title type='text'>New trademark opposition procedure in Italy</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   &gt;Giovanni Orsoni&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.5pt; line-height: 24px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;On 11 July 2011 the Italian Patent and Trademark Office (UIBM), published on its website the first Italian Trademark Bulletin. The current issue (“Bollettino N.1 del 11 luglio 2011”) can be found in PDF format at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.uibm.gov.it/uibm/dati/BollettinoMarchi.aspx"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;http://www.uibm.gov.it/uibm/dati/BollettinoMarchi.aspx&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.5pt; line-height: 24px; "&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;The publication of the online Bulletin, which from now on will be released monthly, &lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;is one of the final implementation steps of the &lt;b&gt;new “opposition” system for Italian trademarks&lt;/b&gt;, as provided for by Articles 174 to 184 of the Italian Industrial Property Code, implemented by a set of subsequent decrees (the Ministerial Decree no. 33/2010 of 13 January 2010, the Legislative Decree no. 131/2010 of 13 August 2010, and finally the Ministerial Decree of 11 May 2011).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.5pt; line-height: 24px; "&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;The opposition procedure before the Italian PTO has been now introduced for the first time in Italy and has been designed along the lines of the opposition proceedings before the OHIM (the European trade marks and designs office), albeit with some differences.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.5pt; line-height: 24px; "&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.5pt; line-height: 24px; "&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;This &lt;b&gt;first issue of the Bulletin&lt;/b&gt; contains a list of the marks filed in Italy after 2 May 2011 and up to 8 June 2011, together with their (eventual) graphical representation, the owner’s name and the designated lists of goods and/or services.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.5pt; line-height: 24px; "&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;These filings can be opposed until three months after the publication of each bulletin, i.e. in this case until 11 October 2011.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.5pt; line-height: 24px; "&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;Similarly, International trademarks applications designating Italy and published in the WIPO Gazette as of July 2011 may be opposed within three months from the first day of the month subsequent to their publication, i.e. in this case before 1 November 2011.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; font-size: small; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.5pt; line-height: 24px; "&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;The &lt;b&gt;grounds&lt;/b&gt; to oppose a filing are strictly listed by law. Oppositions can be filed based on:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.5pt; line-height: 24px; "&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;- Earlier trademark registrations or applications in force in Italy that are either a) identical to the trademark in the application to be opposed and covering identical goods/services, or b) identical or similar to the trademark in the application to be opposed and covering identical or similar goods/services when there exists a likelihood of confusion on the part of the public;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.5pt; line-height: 24px; "&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;- Well-known personal names, signs used in artistic, literary, scientific, political or sports fields, denominations and abbreviations of exhibitions or events and of non-profit bodies or associations and their emblems;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.5pt; line-height: 24px; "&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;- Personal names if the use of the trademark in the opposed application can be detrimental to the reputation, credit or dignity of the person entitled to the name;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.5pt; line-height: 24px; "&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;- Image rights if the trademark in the application to be opposed consists of a portrait of a person.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.5pt; line-height: 24px; "&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.5pt; line-height: 24px; "&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;Any &lt;b&gt;other right&lt;/b&gt; (i.e. unregistered trademarks, domain names, company names, copyright, an earlier trademark for dissimilar goods/services) may be asserted only in ordinary invalidity proceedings before the Italian Courts.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.5pt; line-height: 24px; "&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;Even for the mentioned allowed grounds, the opposition procedure is &lt;b&gt;not mandatory&lt;/b&gt; and proceedings can always be brought before the Courts. The opposition procedure is however expected to be quicker and&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;more cost effective.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.5pt; line-height: 24px; "&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;A &lt;b&gt;fee&lt;/b&gt; of 250 euros must be paid prior to the filing of the opposition, and the &lt;b&gt;procedure timetable&lt;/b&gt; will be as follows: 1) two months from the filing of the opposition for the Office to decide on its admissibility; 2) a cooling-off period of further two months for the parties to find an amicable solution (extendable up to one year on joint request); 3) beginning of the proceedings.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;A &lt;b&gt;decision&lt;/b&gt; shall be rendered within twenty-four months from the opposition date.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.5pt; line-height: 24px; "&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;The decision of the Office on the opposition can be &lt;b&gt;appealed&lt;/b&gt; before a designated Board of Appeal (“Commissione dei Ricorsi”) within 60 days from the notice of the decision. A further appeal (exclusively on points of law) can be brought to the Supreme Court (“Corte di Cassazione”).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.5pt; line-height: 24px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; "&gt;From a practical standpoint, the &lt;b&gt;surveillance system&lt;/b&gt; our firm keeps in place to&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;monitor later filings gains today a new and more up-to-date tool, to give our clients who opted-in to the service a timely report on interfering filings and to evaluate together the opportunity to oppose them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-8811672072238633274?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/8811672072238633274/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=8811672072238633274' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/8811672072238633274'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/8811672072238633274'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2011/07/new-trademark-opposition-procedure-in.html' title='New trademark opposition procedure in Italy'/><author><name>Blogmaster</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08930373460758131951</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-6027350557918949332</id><published>2010-07-03T11:41:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-03T11:53:48.643+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tiffany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viacom'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ebay'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='DMCA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='infringement'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Google'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fabio Angelini'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='district court'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='youtube'/><title type='text'>Why Viacom lost against Youtube? Because Tiffany lost against eBay, that’s why</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 204, 204);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Fabio Angelini&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div  style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Many newspapers have reported the recent “victory” which &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Google scored against Viacom in a copyright infringement case&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;. But sadly, few if any, got it right. And fewer less did notice that in deciding the case, the Judge cited another case which has little t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www1.umn.edu/recycle/images/youtube_logo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 247px; height: 185px;" src="http://www1.umn.edu/recycle/images/youtube_logo.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" &gt;o do with copyright, but which should be more interesting with the followers of this blog, since it squarely dealt with trademarks, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;i.e. Tiffany v. eBay&lt;/span&gt; (630 F.3d 93 -2nd Cir. 2010- aff.d)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, to make it right, let’s start from the former and work our way up to the latter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;Tiffany sued Ebay&lt;/span&gt; alleging that hundreds of thousands of counterfeit silver jewelry items were offered for sale on  eBay’s website from 2003 to 2006.  Tiffany argued that eBay should be held liable for direct and contributory trademark infringement, unfair competition, false advertising, and direct and contributory trademark dilution, since eBay facilitated and allowed these counterfeit items to be sold on its website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tiffany, to make its case even more powerful, ar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" &gt;gued that eBay was on notice that a problem of counterfeiting existed and, accordingly, that eBay had the obligation to  investigate and control the illegal activities of sellers specifically, by preemptively refusing to post any listing offering five or more Tiffany items and by immediately suspending sellers upon learning of Tiffany’s belief that the seller had engaged in potentially harmful conduct.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;EBay, undeterred replied that it was Tiffany’s burden, not  eBay’s, to monitor the eBay website&lt;/span&gt; for counterfeits and to bring counterfeits to eBay’s attention. eBay on its part, claimed and proved that in practice, each time potentially infringing listings were reported to eBay, eBay had immediately removed the offending listings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So at the heart of the dispute was not whether counterfeit Tiffany jewelry should flourish on eBay,  but rather, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;who should bear the burden of policing Tiffany’s “valuable” trademarks in Internet commerce&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Appeal Court, confirming the lower Court decision, recognized that while the rapid development of the Internet and websites like eBay have created new ways for buyers and sellers to connect each other and to expand their businesses beyond geographical limits, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;these new markets have also, however, given counterfeiters new opportunities to expan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;d their reach&lt;/span&gt;. The Court was not unsympathetic to Tiffany and other rights owners who have invested enormous resources in developing their brands, only to see them illicitly and efficiently exploited by others on the Internet. Nevertheless, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;the Court stated firmly that law is clear: it is the trademark owner’s burden to police its mark, and companies like eBay cannot be held liable for trademark infringement based solely on their generalized knowledge that trademark infringement might be occurring on their websites. Tiffany says to be willing to appeal the case to the US Supreme Court, but its chances are, in my view, dim and I would not be surprised if the Supreme Court even denied certiorari&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now let’s turn to the Viacom case.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://kidcupid.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/viacom.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 455px; height: 481px;" src="http://kidcupid.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/viacom.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Viacom&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; (but also the UK Premier League, among the co-plaintiffs) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;had sued Youtube&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; (which is now owned by Google) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;alleging that  while YouTube’s website purports to be a forum for users to share their own original “user generated” video content, in reality, a vast amount of that content consists of infringing copies of Viacom’s copyrighted works&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;. And in an argument strikenly similar to Tiffany, Viacom argued that YouTube had deliberately chosen not to take reasonable precautions to deter the rampant infringement on its site, and since YouTube directly profits from the availability of popular infringing works on its site, it had decided to shift the burden entirely onto copyright owners to monitor the YouTube site on a daily or hourly basis to detect infringing videos and send notices to YouTube demanding that it “take down” the infringing works”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;These being the facts of the case, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Google decided to move for summary judgement&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;. In US civil procedure, a motion for summary judgment means that one party asks the court to decide that the available evidence, even if taken in the light most favorable to the non-moving party (i.e. Viacom) , supports a ruling in favor of the moving party (i.e. Google). Usually, a two-part test must be met: (i) no genuine issue of material fact can be in dispute between the parties, and (ii) the moving party must be entitled to judgment as a matter of law.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Judge Stanton of United States District Court  for the Southern District of New York, found for Youtube that &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;under the safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;. In light of the scope and rationale of the DMCA,  general knowledge of copyright infringement, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;is not sufficient to impose liability on Youtube&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;, and as long as Youtube, once notified of an (alleged) infringement complied with the take down request (and Youtube had implemented the take down, as also recognized by Viacom),  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;YouTube could benefit from the safe harbour provisions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;In reaching his decision, Judge Stanton noted that  “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204); font-weight: bold; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;to let [mere] knowledge of a generalized practice of infringement in the industry, or of a proclivity of users to post infringing materials, impose responsibility on service providers to discover which of their users’ postings infringe a copyright would contravene the structure and operation of the DMCA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;”. In other words, unless it was proven that Youtube had knowledge of specific and identifiable infringements of particular individual item, which basically means to have all the means and opportunities to carry out a preventive control over the (allegedly infringing) posting, Youtube did not have any obligation to police its website also because the DMCA itself explicitly states that its provisions should not be construed to condition the enjoyment of a “safe harbour” on a “service provider monitoring its service or affirmatively seeking facts indicating infringing activity”. And citing the holding of the Tiffany case, Judge Stanton added :“&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 255); font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;although by different techniques, the DMCA applies the same principles, and its establishment of a safe harbour is clear and practical: if a service providers knows (from notice from the owner, or a “red flag”) of specific instances of infringement, the provider must promptly remove the infringing material. If not, the burden is on the owner to identify the infringement. General knowledge that infringement is “ubiquitous” does not impose a duty on the service provider to monitor or search its services for infringements&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Like in Tiffany.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-6027350557918949332?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/6027350557918949332/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=6027350557918949332' title='2 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/6027350557918949332'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/6027350557918949332'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2010/07/why-viacom-lost-against-youtube-because.html' title='Why Viacom lost against Youtube? Because Tiffany lost against eBay, that’s why'/><author><name>Blogmaster</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08930373460758131951</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-227687711838426153</id><published>2010-06-08T11:18:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2010-06-09T14:58:31.760+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marchio comunitario'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stefano sandri'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marchi deboli'/><title type='text'>Una brutta sentenza boccia i marchi deboli</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Stefano Sandri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;STAR SNACKS, della Nicolas Wessang, viene opposto al marchio figurativo &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;della  Greinwald GmbH&lt;/span&gt;, (T 492/08, 11 maggio 2010), più  o meno per gli stessi prodotti. &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Dato la intrinseca debolezza/descrittività dei termini SNACS  e FOODS,  e la diffusissima valenza dell’attribuzione qualitativa di STAR, la Quarta Commissione di ricorso dell’UAMI aveva ritenuto i due segni sufficientemente differenziati e non confondili&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3PmX8mMFriY/TA4MXh10c0I/AAAAAAAAAEE/H3gOGE1Elr8/s1600/1.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 98px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3PmX8mMFriY/TA4MXh10c0I/AAAAAAAAAEE/H3gOGE1Elr8/s200/1.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480331394917102402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L’ Ufficio aveva &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;fatto quindi applicazione piana in tema di giudizio di confondibilità tra marc&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;hi deboli, per cui le differenze  percettive visuali e fonetiche, seppure  di non grande rilievo,  erano più importanti delle somiglianze indotte dal valore concettuale, banalissimo e certo non distintivo. In sostanza, un riconoscimento della consolidata giurisprudenza italiana in materia. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ma il Tribunale ha buttato all’aria l’apprezzamento della pronuncia impugnata&lt;/span&gt;,  non tanto perché ha rifiutato lo schematismo rigido della nostra dottrina sui marchi deboli e marchi forti, ma &lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 204, 204); font-weight: bold;"&gt;perché proprio facendo leva su un accertamento di tutti i fatti pertinenti e rilevanti al caso di specie, è incorsa, a mia opinione, in un palese errore di diritto nell’applicare – sopravvalutandone la portata – il criterio secondo cui “il consumatore presta generalmente la più grande attenzione all’inizio di un marchio, piuttosto che alla sua parte finale”&lt;/span&gt; (punto 46). &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ma quando mai!&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Per acquistare un pacchetto di chips o uno snack o una merendina non sarà certo la dicitura STAR ad attrarre l’attenzione del consumatore&lt;/span&gt;, nella cui impressione globale  eserciterà un ruolo del tutto marginale, in un&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; set&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;tore (quello alimentare) in cui le STAR, in parole o rappresentazioni figurative non si contano più.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3PmX8mMFriY/TA4NamEEg-I/AAAAAAAAAEU/Rrw6BApIdAY/s1600/2.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 100px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3PmX8mMFriY/TA4NamEEg-I/AAAAAAAAAEU/Rrw6BApIdAY/s200/2.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480332547101852642" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3PmX8mMFriY/TA4OHRh9LTI/AAAAAAAAAEc/--o9ALgOxi4/s1600/4.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 112px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3PmX8mMFriY/TA4OHRh9LTI/AAAAAAAAAEc/--o9ALgOxi4/s200/4.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480333314684169522" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Personalmente riterrei piuttosto che STAR ed il suo concetto sia da tempo divenuto termine elogiativo usuale nel commercio de quo  e quindi generico ai sensi dell’art.7, 2. lett d) RMC.&lt;/span&gt; (incidentalmente questa è stata appunto la conclusione cui erano pervenuti i Giudici delle Sezioni specializzate tre anni fa a Venezia ai con i quali avevo condotto una esercitazione proprio su quel simbolo grafico).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;L’impostazione errata del problema nasce in realtà nella sentenza quando si afferma che il carattere distintivo dei marchi non avrebbe in caso di conflitto troppa importanza (punto 56), quando sin dalla dottrina SABEL/PUMA si è detto che“ the more distinctive the earlier mark, the greater will be the likelihood of confusion” , per cui vale la reciproca secondo cui c’è meno rischio di confusione se il marchio è poco o nulla distintivo.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Sotto tale aspetto, &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;la sentenza appare speciosa, formalistica e poco credibile. Insomma, un passo indietro riguardo anche agli ultimi &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;insegnamenti della Corte di giustizia che, a questo punto, speriamo ci metta una pezza&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-227687711838426153?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/227687711838426153/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=227687711838426153' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/227687711838426153'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/227687711838426153'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2010/06/una-brutta-sentenza-boccia-i-marchi.html' title='Una brutta sentenza boccia i marchi deboli'/><author><name>Anna.Cardillo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05028077967736625733</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3PmX8mMFriY/TA4MXh10c0I/AAAAAAAAAEE/H3gOGE1Elr8/s72-c/1.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-6701140876401694982</id><published>2010-05-20T16:03:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2010-06-09T14:57:09.334+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Tutto su il marchio geografico</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px;font-family:'trebuchet ms','Trebuchet MS',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Stefano Sandri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-family:'trebuchet ms','Trebuchet MS',Arial,sans-serif;" &gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;font-size:large;" &gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px;font-family:'trebuchet ms','Trebuchet MS',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;font-family:Georgia,serif;" &gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;157 Paragrafi di motivazione credo siano un record per il Tribunale di prima Istanza, ora diventato la Corte Generale. Il caso (T 237/08, 11 maggio 2010, Abadía Retuerta, SA v UAMI ) ha riguardato&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt; la registrabilità come marchio comunitario del segno EL PALOMAR, toponimo nell’area di Valenzia, Spagna, noto per i suoi vigneti&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;. In realtà i vini della richiedente non provenivano da quel sito, il cui nome esatto è &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;peraltro PALOMAR. Questa differenza ha dato la stura ad una serie di obiezioni in sede di impugnativa davanti al TPI, che peraltro ha confermato la decisione negativa della Commissione di ricorso, ritenendo corretto il din&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;iego di registrazione sulla base del motivo assoluto rappresentato dall’art. 7,1, lett. j del Regolamento. La norma prevede infatti che &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;«Sono esclusi dalla registrazione: (…) j) i marchi dei vini che contengono o consistono in indicazioni geografiche che identificano vini (…) rispetto ai vini (…) che non hanno tale origine»&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 154px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1UF-iQhR75g/S_VCQ-r3YWI/AAAAAAAAACQ/cwpMkxH4df8/s200/blog+geografico.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473353781611028834" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;L’interesse della sentenza sta nella &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;completa ricognizione di tutto il quadro normativo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;, terribilmente complicato, che a diversi livelli (quello internazionale dei TRIPs, quello Comunitario e quello dei regolamenti specifici sui vini) che si applicano in materia (il che spiega la lunghezza inusuale della motivazione) fornendone le relative interpretazioni. Il Tribunale perviene così ad una coerente applicazione della norma al caso di specie. Tra le statuizioni più rilevanti sono quella secondo cui&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt; la Comunità è parte contraente dell’accordo TRIPS, e quindi è in effetti tenuta ad interpretare la sua legislazione sui marchi, nella misura del possibile, alla luce della lettera e della finalità di detto accordo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;; quella che la nozione d’indicazione geografica che identifichi dei vini, ai sensi dell’art. 7, n. 1, lett. j), &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;deve essere letta alla luce delle disposizioni rilevanti del diritto comunitario in materia di determinazione e di protezione delle indicazioni geografiche relativamente ai vini; che la norma in questione si applica senza che occorra tenere conto della questione se i marchi di cui è richiesta la registrazione siano o meno di tale natura da ingannare il pubblico o se sussista un rischio di confusione relativamente all’origine del prodotto, né che sia necessario prendere in considerazione gli articoli determinativi o indeterminativi che possano eventualmente fare parte della località geografica; ed ancora che la circostanza che il nome che beneficia di una denominazione di origine controllata sia sconosciuto al grande pubblico o agli ambienti interessati, o che presenti un carattere polisemico (NB: Palomar vorrebbe dire in spagnolo anche: colombaio) tale da affievolire l’indicazione geografica del medesimo, è priva di rilevanza per l’applicazione dell’impedimento assoluto in esame&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;In definitiva, al di là del caso di specie piuttosto normale, credo che per gli operatori giuridici la sentenza rappresenti dopo Anheuser-Busch una utilissima messa a punto e ricapitolazione del problema. Da non perdere.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-6701140876401694982?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/6701140876401694982/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=6701140876401694982' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/6701140876401694982'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/6701140876401694982'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2010/05/tutto-su-il-marchio-geografico_20.html' title='Tutto su il marchio geografico'/><author><name>Andrea Cicogna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01753243577452394535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1UF-iQhR75g/S_VCQ-r3YWI/AAAAAAAAACQ/cwpMkxH4df8/s72-c/blog+geografico.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-2989417809690023616</id><published>2010-05-20T15:38:00.023+02:00</published><updated>2010-05-20T15:57:35.812+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stefano sandri'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ohim'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='non-stylised letter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Borco-Marken-Import Matthiesen'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='distinctive character'/><title type='text'>A non-stylised letter can be prevented a priori from registration?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stefano Sandri&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"&gt;This, in essence, is the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#00cccc;"&gt;question raised by the appeal brought by OHIM against the judgment of the General Court of 29 April 2009 in BORCO-Marken-Import Matthiesen v OHIM in relation to the&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;letter &lt;em&gt;α&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In accordance with its established decision-making practice, &lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OHIM refuses to register single letters as trade marks on the ground that such letters are, in its opinion, devoid of any distinctive character within the meaning of Article 7(1)(b) of the regulation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In his Opinion, the &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Advocate General YVES BOT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; , 6 May, set out the reasons why he &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;considers that OHIM’s criticisms of the Court’s reasoning are unfounded, from the moment that, under Article 4 of the regulation, letters are included among the registrable signs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. On the other hand &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the assessment of their distinctive character&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, within the meaning of Article 7(1)(b) of the regulation, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;must be carried out within the context of each specific case&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;taking into account the nature and particular characteristics of the goods&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; specified in the application for registration (see in this respect, T-229/06, 21 May 2008, my blog Potrebbe bastare anche una E…). By failing to carry out any examination, based on the facts, of the distinctive character of the sign at issue, &lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OHIM in effect introduced&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; under Article 7(1)(b) of the regulation &lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;an a priori exclusion from registration of a non-stylised letter&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and thereby infringed the terms of the regulation. &lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I’d also add that the fact that the letter is stylised or not is totally irrelevant&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; since a single letter may work as a trade mark and be also perceived by the consumers also as a non visible sign&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/S_UYtYoOpnI/AAAAAAAAAE8/Hh6VWUIqhf0/s1600/clip_image002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 204px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473308090123069042" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/S_UYtYoOpnI/AAAAAAAAAE8/Hh6VWUIqhf0/s320/clip_image002.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"&gt;The General Court and the Advocate General severely criticise the method used by OHIM for assessing the distinctive character of a sign consisting of a single letter. It is then to be expected that the Court of Justice now will set clear once for ever this – unreasonable- controverted issue. This appeal, indeed, gives the Court the opportunity to define its position of principle with regard to the method which OHIM must use for assessing the distinctive character of a sign consisting of a single non-stylised letter, for the purposes of registering the sign as a Community trade mark. That definition ought to put an end to the disagreement between OHIM and the General Court in this regard (point 18 of the Opinion).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-2989417809690023616?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/2989417809690023616/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=2989417809690023616' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/2989417809690023616'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/2989417809690023616'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2010/05/non-stylised-letter-can-be-prevented.html' title='A non-stylised letter can be prevented a priori from registration?'/><author><name>Fabio Cammarata Pignato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16121985644143285107</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/S_UYtYoOpnI/AAAAAAAAAE8/Hh6VWUIqhf0/s72-c/clip_image002.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-5949651627915704713</id><published>2010-05-07T11:18:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2010-05-10T16:50:10.802+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='special advisor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stefano sandri'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ohim'/><title type='text'>Ad maiora, Prof. Sandri</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Blogmaster&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Ue3rHDC0Kc/S-gc5IatJ0I/AAAAAAAAASI/lBrZanEP2uI/s1600/s+sandri.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 137px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Ue3rHDC0Kc/S-gc5IatJ0I/AAAAAAAAASI/lBrZanEP2uI/s200/s+sandri.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469653515279083330" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Ue3rHDC0Kc/S-gc5IatJ0I/AAAAAAAAASI/lBrZanEP2uI/s1600/s+sandri.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;Prof. Stefano Sandri has been renewed for &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;2010-2011 as Special Advisor to OHIM&lt;/span&gt;. The Special Advisor, according to the EU Staff Regulations “means a person who,&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt; by reasons of his special qualifications&lt;/span&gt;” may represent the Office in its external communications and public relations with the users of the Community Trademark system.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;Congratulations !!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-5949651627915704713?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/5949651627915704713/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=5949651627915704713' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/5949651627915704713'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/5949651627915704713'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2010/05/ad-maiora-prof-sandri.html' title='Ad maiora, Prof. Sandri'/><author><name>Blogmaster</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08930373460758131951</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Ue3rHDC0Kc/S-gc5IatJ0I/AAAAAAAAASI/lBrZanEP2uI/s72-c/s+sandri.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-5031341702445567078</id><published>2010-04-26T16:50:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2010-04-26T20:19:23.259+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ctm'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trademarks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ohim'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lorenzo Litta'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='logo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='WIPO'/><title type='text'>New Wipo Logo</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Lorenzo Litta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Today I have received this interesting message:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Ue3rHDC0Kc/S9XTGiKynFI/AAAAAAAAASA/A9fHu5XSVLA/s1600/new_logo_resize.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 499px; height: 359px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Ue3rHDC0Kc/S9XTGiKynFI/AAAAAAAAASA/A9fHu5XSVLA/s400/new_logo_resize.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464505832088706130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;I would say that it is very nice and dynamic, maybe &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;WIPO&lt;/span&gt; is trying to restyle its image as &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"&gt;OHIM&lt;/span&gt; did a few months ago, does it start the war of the Logos ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-5031341702445567078?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/5031341702445567078/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=5031341702445567078' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/5031341702445567078'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/5031341702445567078'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2010/04/new-wipo-logo.html' title='New Wipo Logo'/><author><name>Blogmaster</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08930373460758131951</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Ue3rHDC0Kc/S9XTGiKynFI/AAAAAAAAASA/A9fHu5XSVLA/s72-c/new_logo_resize.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-2733592523556379516</id><published>2010-04-02T17:33:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2010-04-07T17:42:37.079+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='patents'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mauro turrini'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='biotec'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Brevetti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gene'/><title type='text'>Bio-tec, da New York soffia vento di crisi...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" &gt;Mauro Turrini&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Risale a pochi giorni fa la decisione della &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;Corte Distrettuale dello Stato di New York&lt;/span&gt;, Stati Uniti (District Court for the Southern District of New Your, US), che potrebbe cambiare il &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;panorama della R&amp;amp;D nel settore delle biotecnologie&lt;/span&gt; che si occupano di ge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.historical-ss-mods.net/wgames/sust/images/financial%20crisis.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 308px; height: 255px;" src="http://www.historical-ss-mods.net/wgames/sust/images/financial%20crisis.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;ni e test genetici.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;In data 29 marzo 2010, infatti, la Corte Distrettuale ha emanato una decisione nel caso &lt;i style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;Association for Molecular Pathology v. US Patent &amp;amp; Trademark Office&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt; (No 09-Civ-4515)&lt;/span&gt;, per effetto della quale &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;sono state dichiarate nulle tutte le rivendicazioni relative a 7 brevetti &lt;/span&gt;di titolarità di ovvero concessi in licenziataria esclusiva a la società Myriad Genetics.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Le rivendicazioni dei brevetti Myriad, tutte &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 204, 204);"&gt;r&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 204, 204);"&gt;elative a geni umani isolati ed a metodi diagnostici per la valutazione della presenza di mutazioni nei geni BRCA1 e BRCA 2&lt;/span&gt;, queste ultime associate all’aumento del rischio del verificarsi di tumori al seno ed alle ovarie, possono essere essenzialmente raggruppate in due distinte categorie: &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;(i)&lt;/span&gt; rivendicazioni relative all’isolamento di parti di DNA contenenti in tutto o in parte i geni BRCA1 o BRCA2 e &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;(ii)&lt;/span&gt; rivendicazioni relative ai metodi d’uso di tali geni isolati allo scopo di individuare le mutazioni, come detto, sospette responsabili dei sopramenzionati tumori, mediante lo studio delle sequenze genetiche ovvero della comparazione di tali sequenze con quelle comunemente osservabili in assenza di mutazioni.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Rivendicazioni relative a geni isolati&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;La Corte ha ritenuto nulle, accogliendo la tesi di parte attrice, predette rivendicazioni, in quanto esse ricadrebbero all’interno della sezione 35 del USC § 101, ossia tra le materie escluse dalla brevettabilità perché ritenute “sostanze rinvenibili in natura”. La Corte in merito ha richiamato una serie di precedenti giurisprudenziali&lt;a class="sdfootnoteanc" name="sdfootnote1anc" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=24586751#sdfootnote1sym"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in base ai quali “la mera purificazione di un prodotto naturale non può trasformare tale prodotto in materia oggetto di protezione brevettuale”. Un prodotto dovrebbe, infatti, possedere delle “rimarcabili differenti caratteristiche” rispetto a quelle di un prodotto rinvenibile in natura per poter essere ritenuto brevettabile. La Corte, quindi, non ritenendo soddisfacenti le argomentazioni contrarie espresse da Myriad sul punto, ha ritenuto che non vi fosse una rimarcabile differenza tra i geni rinvenibili in natura (nel DNA nativo) e quelli isolati, ossia una differenza tale da trasformare la materia del contendere brevettabile ai sensi della normativa brevettuale e giurisprudenza applicabili.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Rivendicazioni sui metodi diagnostici&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;La Corte ha ritenuto, altresì, nulle, come detto, tutte le rivendicazioni relative ai metodi di utilizzazione di tali sequenze genetici ai fini dell’individuazione delle mutazioni cancerogene sopra menzionate. In particolare, la Corte ha ritenuto tali rivendicazioni non brevettabili in quanto non satisfattive del “&lt;i&gt;machine o trasformation test&lt;/i&gt;”&lt;a class="sdfootnoteanc" name="sdfootnote2anc" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=24586751#sdfootnote2sym"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; enunciato in &lt;i&gt;In re Bilki 545 F.3d 943&lt;/i&gt; (Fed. Cir. 2008) e secondo cui un metodo diagnostico potrebbe considerarsi brevettabile solo nel caso in cui esso conduca alla realizzazione di una macchina, un apparato o alternativamente in un prodotto. Nel caso di specie la Corte ha ritenuto, al contrario, che la mera comparazione tra sequenze genetiche, sebbene isolate, non fosse - in quanto mera attività intellettiva di osservazione e valutazione (e non, contrariamente, ad esempio di analisi e correzione dello &lt;i&gt;status&lt;/i&gt; della materia stessa, così come esistente in natura), tale da soddisfare tale test.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;L’importanza della decisione della Corte statunitense è di tutta evidenza se si considera che il campo delle ricerca e dei test genetici ha visto sorgere negli ultimi decenni centinai di piccole società biotech&lt;/span&gt;, soprattutto negli Stati Uniti. Tale decisione, quindi, sebbene non ancora definitiva,e forse anche per alcuni anni (è prevedibile, infatti, che a tale decisione farà seguito un procedimento di appello davanti alla Federal Circuit, e fors’anche di ulteriore ed ultima stanza davanti alla Suprema Corte Statunitense, le cui tempistiche non si stimano inferiori a 2-3 anni), &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;potrebbe avere da subito l’effetto dello spostamento dei flussi degli investimenti privati, la modifica de piani strategici delle piccole imprese, così come delle grandi società del farmaco che a tali tecnologie guardavano con interesse, per finire con le possibili ripercussioni sulle prassi &lt;/span&gt;(degli uffici brevettuali americani, se non anche mondiali) e sul contenzioso brevettuale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-2733592523556379516?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/2733592523556379516/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=2733592523556379516' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/2733592523556379516'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/2733592523556379516'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2010/04/bio-tec-da-new-york-soffia-vento-di.html' title='Bio-tec, da New York soffia vento di crisi...'/><author><name>Blogmaster</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08930373460758131951</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-2359065761361684179</id><published>2010-03-29T18:29:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2010-04-20T18:09:45.207+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Proprietà Industriale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chiara Mulas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Design'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Novità'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cina'/><title type='text'>EU-CHINA workshop sulla protezione dei modelli in Cina</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Chiara Mulas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/images/set3/iphone-china-talks.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 217px; height: 313px;" src="http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/images/set3/iphone-china-talks.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Il 25 Marzo scorso si è tenuto il “&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;Simposio sino-europeo sulle regole in materia di disegni e modelli&lt;/span&gt;”, presso il Centro Congressi Stelline di Milano, organizzato dall’&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102); font-weight: bold;"&gt;UAMI e dal SIPO&lt;/span&gt;, in collaborazione con l’Ordine dei&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; Consulenti in Proprietà Industriale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L’obiettivo del seminario era quello di fornire un &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;aggiornamento sul nuovo sistema di registrazione dei design in Cina&lt;/span&gt;, in seguito alla modifica della legge brevetti del Dicembre 2008, in vigore da Ottobre 2009.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dopo un’introduzione all’evento da parte dell’Ing. Vittorio Faraggiana, Presidente dell’Ordine dei Consulenti in Proprietà intellettuale, che ha sottolineato l’&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;importanza della tutela dell’unicità del design&lt;/span&gt; e la necessità di aggiornamento sulla situazione della protezione del design in Cina; il simposio è stato moderato dal Dott. Ignacio De Medrano Caballero, direttore aggiunto del Dipartimento Affari istituzionali e relazioni esterne dell’UAMI, il quale ha evidenziato il &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;ruolo fondamentale dell’Italia nella registrazione dei design a livello comunitario&lt;/span&gt; (al secondo posto per numero di disegni registrati).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Durante la prima parte dell’evento la Dott.sa Wang Xiaoyun, dell’Ufficio per la verifica di disegni e modelli della SIPO, ha delineato un quadro generale delle attività del dipartimento e successivamente descritto le &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;linee guida per la registrazione dei design in Cina&lt;/span&gt;, con particolare riferimento alle nuove modifiche della legge sui brevetti.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nella seconda parte del simposio la Dott.sa Zhong Hua, della Commissione per il riesame dei diritti della SIPO, ha spiegato puntualmente le varie &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 204, 204);"&gt;procedure di riesame e annullamento dei brevetti di design e modelli in Cina&lt;/span&gt; con l’aiuto di diversi casi studio.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Per un approfondimento dell’argomento, da questa settimana sono disponibili le presentazioni del simposio sul sito dell’UAMI:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;- &lt;a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" href="http://oami.europa.eu/ows/rw/resource/documents/OHIM/news/events/Introduction%20of%20SIPO_ZH_IT.ppt"&gt;Notizie sul dipartimento nazionale per i Diritti di proprietà intellettuale&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;- &lt;a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" href="http://oami.europa.eu/ows/rw/resource/documents/OHIM/news/events/Introduction%20of%20the%20Chinese%20Design%20System_ZH-IT.ppt"&gt;Il sistema cinese dei disegni e modelli&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;- &lt;a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);" href="http://oami.europa.eu/ows/rw/resource/documents/OHIM/news/events/Introduction%20of%20the%20Chinese%20Design%20System_ZH-IT.ppt"&gt;Esame giudiziario delle procedure per il riesame e l’annullamento di brevetti di disegni e modelli in Cina&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;- &lt;a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" href="http://oami.europa.eu/ows/rw/resource/documents/OHIM/news/events/The%20Chinese%20Design%20System%20Reexamination%20and%20Invalidation_ZH-IT.ppt"&gt;Procedure per il riesame e l’annullamento di brevetti di disegni e modelli in Cina&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-2359065761361684179?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/2359065761361684179/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=2359065761361684179' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/2359065761361684179'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/2359065761361684179'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2010/03/eu-china-workshop-sulla-protezione-dei.html' title='EU-CHINA workshop sulla protezione dei modelli in Cina'/><author><name>Blogmaster</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08930373460758131951</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-1545673499305310751</id><published>2010-03-19T11:01:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2010-03-22T11:06:32.341+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tiziana vecchio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Turchia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trademarks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ICE'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='counterfeiting'/><title type='text'>Ankara pıù sensibile ai diritti di proprieta’ intellettuale</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Tiziana Vecchio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div  style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Nella capitale della Turchia, Ankara, diverse recenti inziative indicano che &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;l’attenzione verso il fenomeno della contraffazione sta crescendo&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; Ankara  ha ospitato la &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204); font-weight: bold;"&gt;prima mostra di articoli contraffatti in Turchia&lt;/span&gt; nel centro commerciale CEPI dal 1 al 10 marzo scorso. Sono stati esposti orologi, giocattoli, occhiali da sole, profumi, scarpe, fermacapelli, etc. con l’obiettivo di aumentare la consapevolezza verso i marchi. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p face="trebuchet ms" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Marchi turchi e stranieri contraffatti sono stati esposti &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;fianco a fianco. L&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;’iniziativa e’ stata organizzata da Grup Ofis  Marka ve Patent Ajanligi Musavirlik&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; Un segnale molto interessante sull’aumento della consapevolezza e del coinvolgimento da parte degli operatori economici turchi,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;viene dal fatto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://media.panorama.it/media/foto/2008/09/27/48de31b07ca29_zoom.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 243px; height: 163px;" src="http://media.panorama.it/media/foto/2008/09/27/48de31b07ca29_zoom.JPG" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; che la  Camera di Commercio di Ankara (ATO - Ankara Ticaret Odasi) ha redatto e diffuso di recente un proprio rapporto sulla contraffazione in Turchia. Secondo il rapporto, la Turchia e' divenuta, dopo la Cina, il secondo mercat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;o di produzione e smercio di articoli contraffatti ed imitati. Lo studio dell'ATO, stimola il governo centrale, ma anche le &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;municipalita' della grandi citta’ turche come Istanbul, Ankara e Izmir &lt;/span&gt;ad una maggiore attenzione al &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;fenomeno rispetto al passato e raccordarsi con gli altri Stati  per combattere un fenomeno che viene riconosciuto come negativo per lo sviluppo socio-economico futuro del paese.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Dal canto suo l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;’Ufficio Turco dei Brevetti ha organizzato per il &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;"&gt;terzo anno consecutivo la cerimonia di premiazione per i brevetti turchi,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;"&gt; ritenendo importante la premiazione per l’incentivazione e il riconoscimento delle innovazioni.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;L’iniziativa ‘&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Premi per i Brevetti Turchi&lt;/span&gt;’, in effetti favorisce lo sviluppo della coscienza sociale nei confronti della proprieta’ industriale ed aumenta l’attenzione riservata dagli imprenditori e dai ricercatori all’innovazione. Il criterio scelto per l’assegnazione dei premi e’ stato quello di dare valore alle imprese turche che hanno depositato nel corso del 2009 il maggior numero di domande di registrazione di marchi, brevetti e disegni industriali.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-1545673499305310751?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/1545673499305310751/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=1545673499305310751' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/1545673499305310751'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/1545673499305310751'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2010/03/tiziana-vecchio-nella-capitale-della.html' title='Ankara pıù sensibile ai diritti di proprieta’ intellettuale'/><author><name>Blogmaster</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08930373460758131951</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-6199941546868667246</id><published>2010-03-11T11:24:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T11:32:50.873+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='italian style'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='opposizioni'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lorenzo Litta'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Proprietà Intellettuale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Regolamento'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Proprietà Industriale'/><title type='text'>E alla fine arriva l'opposizione!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Lorenzo Litta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" &gt;Ieri è entrato in vigore il  nuovo &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;Regolamento di attuazione del Codice della proprietà industriale&lt;/span&gt;, pubblicato sulla&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt; Gazzetta Ufficiale n. 56 del 9 marzo 2010&lt;/span&gt;. L'attesissimo Regolamento, che &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"&gt;introduce in Italia le opposizioni &lt;/span&gt;amministrative in tema di Proprietà Industriale, disciplina, in particolare: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;1.&lt;/span&gt;   Il deposito in formato cartaceo e  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 255);"&gt;per via telematica&lt;/span&gt; di: domande; istanze, atti, documenti e ricorsi  notificati; traduzioni in lingua italiana delle rivendicazioni delle  domande di brevetto europeo e dei testi pubblicati dei brevetti europei  concessi o mantenuti in forma modificata.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;2. &lt;/span&gt;  Le modalità di deposito  dell’&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;atto di opposizione&lt;/span&gt; e della documentazione successiva;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;3.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;La  convocazione e lo svolgimento dell’assemblea degli iscritti all’&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Albo dei  consulenti&lt;/span&gt; in proprietà industriale abilitati, nonché lo svolgimento  delle votazioni per l’elezione del Consiglio dell’Ordine dei consulenti  in proprietà industriale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-6199941546868667246?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/6199941546868667246/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=6199941546868667246' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/6199941546868667246'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/6199941546868667246'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2010/03/e-alla-fine-arriva-lopposizione.html' title='E alla fine arriva l&apos;opposizione!'/><author><name>Blogmaster</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08930373460758131951</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-7674381594731038548</id><published>2010-03-08T15:00:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2010-03-08T15:10:24.663+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dogane'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Turchia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Proprietà Industriale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Novità'/><title type='text'>Focus on... Turchia: oggi è più facile fermare in Dogana i prodotti contraffatti</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span  lang="it-IT" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Tiziana Vecchio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Il nuovo &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;Regolamento Doganale n. 27369 del 7 ottobre 2009&lt;/span&gt; costituisce un importante sviluppo nel rendere &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;più efficace la tutela&lt;/span&gt; dei diritti di proprietà industriale e intellettuale al momento dell’esportazione e/o importazione dei prodotti contraffatti.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Affinchè le Amministrazioni doganali sospendano le procedure doganali dei prodotti contraffatti è indispensabile che il titolare dei dir&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.oham.org/images/countries/turchia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 183px; height: 176px;" src="http://www.oham.org/images/countries/turchia.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;itti, o chi lo rappresenta, presenti una &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"&gt;istanza preventiva e generale&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;h2 class="titre2b-western"  style="text-indent: 0.01cm; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="it-IT"&gt;Mentre &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;le disposizioni del precedente Regolamento Doganale imponevano che tale istanza fosse presentata a ciascun Ufficio Doganale presente sul territorio turco ogni trenta giorni, adesso la richiesta ha validità per tutto il territorio turco ed ha scadenza annuale.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="it-IT"&gt;E’ stata &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;creata una banca-dati centralizzata riguardante i diritti della proprietà intellettuale&lt;/span&gt; che raccoglie i dati relativi alle domande presentate dai titolari dei diritti agli uffici di dogana e ne consente il monitoraggio e il controllo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="it-IT"&gt;Tramite lo scambio di dati elettronico anche&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt; i titolari dei diritti sono informati direttamente delle violazioni&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; I titolari devono in primo luogo inviare alla sede centrale del Sottosegretariato alle Dogane turco la “Richiesta di Intervento dell’Amministrazione Doganale in caso di Violazione dei Diritti di Proprietà Industriale e Intellettuale” (allegato 13 del nuovo Regolamento Doganale).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="it-IT"&gt;Il Regolamento e il modulo per la richiesta sono accessibili al seguente link: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gumruk.gov.tr/tr-TR/emevzuat/Sayfalar/yonetmelikler.aspx"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span lang="it-IT"&gt;http://www.gumruk.gov.tr/tr-TR/emevzuat/Sayfalar/yonetmelikler.aspx&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="it-IT"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="it-IT"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;Nel caso il titolare risieda all’estero&lt;/span&gt;, la richiesta può essere presentata esclusivamente da un rappresentate legale risiedente in Turchia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span lang="it-IT"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;La richiesta deve contenere su supporto informatico&lt;/span&gt;, tra le altre cose, i certificati di registrazione del marchio, brevetto, design ecc.., le fotografie a colori del prodotto originale nonché dei prodotti contraffatti eventualmente intercettati, e tutti gli elementi utili per l’individuazione di un eventuale prodotto contraffatto: le differenze tecniche fra il prodotto contraffatto e quello originale, i dettagli in merito alla confezione, informazioni sulle modalità di entrata e/o uscita dalla Turchia dei prodotti originali, etc.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="it-IT"&gt;Accettata la richiesta, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 102, 204);"&gt;le Amministrazioni Doganali provvederanno a sospendere le operazioni doganali &lt;/span&gt;e a confiscare il materiale individuato conforme alle caratteristiche dichiarate dal titolare del diritto. Le stesse amministrazioni provvederanno, entro il primo giorno &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.diritto-internazionale.com/guide/CartinaTurchia.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 284px; height: 167px;" src="http://www.diritto-internazionale.com/guide/CartinaTurchia.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="it-IT"&gt;lavorativo seguente la sospensione e la confisca, a comunicare al titolare del diritto tutte le informazioni relative al sequestro. Il titolare ha il diritto di esibire tali informazioni alle autorità giudiziarie; per poter mantener&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="it-IT"&gt;e lo status di sospensione e di fermo, dovrà informare per iscritto  l’Amministrazione Doganale entro tre giorni dalla data di ricezione delle informazioni; entro dieci giorni, inoltre, dovrà intent&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="it-IT"&gt;are causa civile e/o penale ed ottenere una confisca e/o un provvedimento cautelare del quale dovra’ informare subito l’Amministrazione Doganale. A questo punto i prodotti saranno custoditi in dogana sino alla fine del procedimento giudiziario. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="it-IT"&gt;Grazie a questa nuova procedura, l’Amministrazione Doganale si conferma in Turchia l’istituzione più coinvolta ed  efficace nella lotta contro la contraffazione.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-7674381594731038548?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/7674381594731038548/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=7674381594731038548' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/7674381594731038548'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/7674381594731038548'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2010/03/focus-on-turchia-oggi-e-piu-facile.html' title='Focus on... Turchia: oggi è più facile fermare in Dogana i prodotti contraffatti'/><author><name>Blogmaster</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08930373460758131951</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-6369932018397718995</id><published>2010-03-01T17:18:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-03-02T19:02:29.804+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='milano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stefano sandri'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ICE'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Proprietà Industriale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mip'/><title type='text'>Per problemi complessi, soluzioni complesse</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Silvia Folador&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div  style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Il 26 Febbraio 2010 presso la Sala Pirelli dell'Ufficio ICE di Milano si è tenuto il convegno sul tema &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;“Competere sui mercati internazionali:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;b style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;strong style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;nuovi scenari, nuove sfide, nuove professionalità”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#000000;"&gt;Il convegno è stato organizzato dall’ICE con la collaborazione del &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;MIP Politecnico di Milano&lt;/span&gt; e il supporto di &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;Assolombarda&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-right: 0.22cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#000000;"&gt;L'evento si è aperto all’insegna dei temi di innovazione e competitività nelle aziende, con una particolare attenzione alla valorizzazione della Proprietà Intellettuale. Alla tavola rotonda, moderata da &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;Rita Fatiguso&lt;/span&gt; del Sole 24 ore, hanno preso parte i rappresentanti di tre aziende. Il Dr. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;Alessandro Biraghi,&lt;/span&gt; responsabile della gestione della proprietà intellettuale presso PERF&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#000000;"&gt;ETTI Van Melle, ha presentato il caso della contraffazione cinese del famoso marchio &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Alpenliebe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#000000;"&gt;. Il Dr. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"&gt;Paolo Balestrieri&lt;/span&gt;, responsabile anti-contraffazione del Dipartimento di Proprietà Intellettuale del gruppo LVMH , ha trattato il delicato tema della valorizzazione e tutela del luxury brand. Infine, il Dr. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;Fabio Pondero&lt;/span&gt;, rappresentante di Danieli &amp;amp; Co. Officine Meccaniche,  si è fatto portavoce dell’industria manifatturiera italiana e della necessità di proteggerne l’innovazione in particolare nei mercati dell’Asia. &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-top: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0.49cm; text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#000000;"&gt;La seconda parte dell’evento è stata dedicata alla &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;consegna dei diplomi agli allievi della seconda edizione del Corso Post-Laurea IDEA CINA&lt;/span&gt; e alla presentazione della &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;terza edizione&lt;/span&gt; che è iniziata ufficialmente  oggi, primo marzo 2010. Il “passaggio del testimone” da parte degli undici alunni appena diplomati ai dodici fortunati partecipanti alla nuova edizione del corso rapprese&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Ue3rHDC0Kc/R1WPOCXeSPI/AAAAAAAAAFU/mQYn0ZdaYoE/S300/ideacina.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 202px; height: 73px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Ue3rHDC0Kc/R1WPOCXeSPI/AAAAAAAAAFU/mQYn0ZdaYoE/S300/ideacina.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#000000;"&gt;nta simbolicamente la &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;continuità dell’ICE nel suo percorso di formazione manageriale&lt;/span&gt;. La stessa continuità  caratterizza la &lt;i&gt;mission &lt;/i&gt;dell’ICE, ovvero fornire sevizi alle PMI italiane che lavorano all’estero. &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-top: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0.49cm; text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#000000;"&gt;Come sottolineato dal &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;Prof. Sandri&lt;/span&gt;, a problemi complessi corrispondono soluzioni complesse: un'impresa moderna sempre più proiettata verso lo scenario internazionale deve valorizzare e difendere il proprio patrimonio intellettuale. E’ necessario ampliare la concezione prettamente giuridica del problema, integrando l’aspetto “patologico” della sua contraffazione con la considerazione degli aspetti positivi. Il corso&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt; IDEA CINA&lt;/span&gt; risponde all'esigenza delle imprese di un management &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;moderno&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#000000;"&gt;, attraverso una specifica formazione di risorse con una preparazione teorica e operativa di eccellenza sulla Proprietà Intellettuale e con particolare riferimento al mercato cinese.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-6369932018397718995?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/6369932018397718995/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=6369932018397718995' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/6369932018397718995'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/6369932018397718995'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2010/03/per-problemi-complessi-soluzioni.html' title='Per problemi complessi, soluzioni complesse'/><author><name>Blogmaster</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08930373460758131951</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Ue3rHDC0Kc/R1WPOCXeSPI/AAAAAAAAAFU/mQYn0ZdaYoE/s72-c/ideacina.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-7575283637633100271</id><published>2010-02-25T18:20:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2010-02-25T18:29:57.428+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='court of justice'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lancome'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='408/08'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fabio Angelini'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ecj'/><title type='text'>COLOR EDITION: on standing, public interest and a Titanic full of lawyers...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 204, 204);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Fabio Angelini&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:10pt;"   lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Court of Justice –CJ- (formerly known &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"   lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;as the European Court of Justice) &lt;/span&gt;has finally delivered its (largely anticipated at least for me) final decision on the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;COLOR EDITION saga&lt;/span&gt; (case C-408/08 of Feb. 25, 2010, Lancôme Parfums et Beauté &amp;amp; Cie SNC v. OHIM).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="c01pointnumerotealtn"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-US" style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The main issue was, essentially &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;"&gt;whether or not a law firm acting on its own behalf may apply for cancellation&lt;/span&gt; – for descriptiveness- of a CTM (COLOR EDITION for cosmetics). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="c01pointnumerotealtn"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-US" style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;The General Court –GC- (formerly known as the Court of First Instance) had found no reason to deny standing for  law firms&lt;/span&gt;. Lancome thus filed an appeal to the CJ  saying that the GC had erred because &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-US" style="font-size:85%;"&gt;the general interest underlying that ground for refusal is only the interest of all the trade‑mark applicant’s or proprietor’s competitors, whose right to use a descriptive indication for their own goods or services must be protected from unlawful registrations by a competitor. Consequently, only where actual or potential constraints are imposed on an actual or potential competitor of the applicant may that ground for refusal be relied on. Thus, in Lancome’s view, a&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"&gt;rt. 55(1)(a) CTMR ought be interpreted as requiring the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.splendicity.com/makeupminute/files/2008/01/lancome.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 173px; height: 173px;" src="http://www.splendicity.com/makeupminute/files/2008/01/lancome.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-US" style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"&gt;applicant, in addition to having the capacity to bring proceedings, also to be economically concerned either actually or potentially and, consequently, to have an actual or potential economic interest in having the contested mark declared invalid. That cannot be the case of a law firm&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="c01pointnumerotealtn"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-US" style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The CJ  did not agree for 2 reasons. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="c01pointnumerotealtn"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-US" style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;The first reason is strictly grounded in a coordinated interpretation of art. 55(1)(a) vis-à-vis 55(1)(b) and 55(1)c)&lt;/span&gt;. The former provides that an application for a declaration of invalidity based on an absolute ground for invalidity may be submitted by any natural or legal person and any group or body set up for the purpose of representing the interests of manufacturers, producers, suppliers of services, traders or consumers, which has the capacity in its own name to sue and be sued, whereas Article 55(1)(b) and (c) of the regulation, concerning applications for a declaration of invalidity based on a relative ground for invalidity, reserves the right to make such an application to certain specific persons who have an interest in bringing proceedings. Thus the GC had rightly found that legislature intended to restrict the group of persons able to apply for a declaration of invalidity in the latter case, but not in the former. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"&gt;Furthermore, whereas relative grounds for refusal of registration protect the interests of proprietors of certain earlier rights, the absolute grounds for refusal of registration aim to protect the general interest underlying them, which explains why Article 55(1)(a) of the regulation does not require the applicant to show an interest in bringing proceedings&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="c01pointnumerotealtn"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-US" style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;The second reason arises from the CJ own case law’s definition of what is the purpose underlying the notion of a general interest which is general enough to trigger a reaction&lt;/span&gt; (cf. Cases C‑108/97 and C‑109/97 &lt;i&gt;Windsurfing Chiemsee&lt;/i&gt;). In short, since the Court had held that “&lt;i&gt;the general interest requires that descriptive signs or indications relating to the goods or services in respect of which registration is sought may be freely used by all&lt;/i&gt;” , it can be inferred that the general interest underlying the ground for refusal of registration of a mark because of its descriptiveness is not exclusively the interest of the trade‑mark applicant’s or proprietor’s competitors but a common (“&lt;i&gt;used by all”&lt;/i&gt;) interest. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-US" style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-US" style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 255);"&gt;In my view the decision is fair enough&lt;/span&gt;. Lancome’s argument pivots around a quite dangerous and slippery-slope kind of approach which is that only competitors may sue for invalidity of a descriptive trademark. It is quite easy to see that once standing is so “factually” (un)defined, each time someone (even a trade mark owner) files an invalidity action  against an allegedly descriptive mark, the trademark applicant could challenge the standing by asking that the subject who has filed the invalidity action show proof of its actual or potential economic interest in having the contested mark declared invalid. Furthermore, and by the same token, anytime a TM Office refuses a trademark as descriptive, the TM applicant would have the right to request the TM Office to specify who is being harmed and how the harm would take place (i.e. which is the company that would suffer an actual or potential economic interest if the contested mark is declared valid). &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-US" style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;Beware that I am not saying that it is impossible or economically unreasonable to restrict standing;&lt;/span&gt; however, at least in the civil system where judicial restraint is the norm (judges should only apply and interpret the law, don’t create or make it), changes which may have far reaching consequences should be the realm of the legislatures, not the result of one company’s desire to register a (dubiously distinctive) trademark.    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-US" style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="c07titre4"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-US" style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Is this all to be said on this decision? Not quite. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;The real juicy and part, at least in my view, was in the second set of grounds: doing what the applicant for invalidity did, is compatible with a “role” of a law firm?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-US" style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="c01pointnumerotealtn"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-US" style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Lancôme argued, in fact,  that the right of a law firm to file an application for a declaration of invalidity of a Community trade mark, on its own account and in its own name, “&lt;i style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;is incompatible with the role of the legal profession, as it is recognized &lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;(emphasis added)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt; throughout the European Union&lt;/i&gt;” (at §45). &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="c01pointnumerotealtn"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-US" style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;I have not had the benefit to read Lancome’s submissions and thus I ignore how and on the basis of which documents Lancome was able to subsume how the legal profession is recognized  throughout the EU&lt;/span&gt;. Surely, and hopefully Lancome did not rely on the famous pun “what is a lawyers’ convention on the maiden voyage of the Titanic? A good start…”.   &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="c01pointnumerotealtn"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-US" style="font-size:85%;"&gt;From the decision itself I see that Lancome argued that under European Union law, the role of the legal profession “&lt;i&gt;has always been to collaborate in the administration of justice. Article 19 of the Statute of the Court of Justice is based on that conception of the profession of lawyer, which is also apparent from the case‑law and, in particular, from Case 155/79 AM &amp;amp; S Europe v Commission” &lt;/i&gt;(at §46) &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-US" style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;The CJ, regrettably eluded the question&lt;/span&gt;. It did say (in what I personally, consider a dicta) at § 50, that  neither art. 55(1)(a) may be held to have any contact with the legal profession, nor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-US" style="font-size:85%;"&gt; the CTM regulation contains any rules applicable to the exercise of that profession, as such rules are in principle, in the absence of specific rules of European Union law in the field, established by each Member State (which seems to contradict Lancome’s belief that there is a common recognition of the legal profession in the EU).     &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="c01pointnumerotealtn"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-US" style="font-size:85%;"&gt;But &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;the CJ did not need to go any deeper than that&lt;/span&gt;, because it deftly concluded that this argument was a separate ground of appeal, and since it had not been raised before the GC and, since it did not relate to the admissibility of a court action but to an application made to OHIM, it was not a matter of public interest which the GC should have examined of its own motion. Therefore, since in an appeal the jurisdiction of the CJ is confined to review of the findings of law on the pleas argued before the GC, the argument of incompatibility was dismissed as inadmissible. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-US" style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 204, 204);"&gt;What a pity… and what a relief for the legal profession!&lt;/span&gt; Can anyone imagine the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;practical consequences&lt;/span&gt;,  if the ECJ had actually found and held that lawfirm (and lawyers) have an explict and affirmative  duty to collaborate in the administration of the justice, so as that their actions would be subject to review under a “meritocratic” standard? How would so many quirky, incomprehensible –if not reprehensible- oppositions which have been and are still filed eveyday ever be justified under such a standard? &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"   lang="EN-US"&gt;Better leave lawfirms and lawyers on the Titanic… &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-7575283637633100271?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/7575283637633100271/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=7575283637633100271' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/7575283637633100271'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/7575283637633100271'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2010/02/color-edition-on-standing-public.html' title='COLOR EDITION: on standing, public interest and a Titanic full of lawyers...'/><author><name>Blogmaster</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08930373460758131951</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-7260906245442731696</id><published>2010-02-24T15:30:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2010-02-24T15:35:43.593+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marchio comunitario'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cubo di Rubik'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cassazione'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fabio Cammarata Pignato'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sentenza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Contraffazione'/><title type='text'>La Corte di Cassazione risolve il Cubo di Rubik ?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#33cc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fabio Cammarata Pignato&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Con la &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;sentenza n°4217, del 2 febbraio 2010&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, la &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Corte di Cassazione&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; ha reso noto, se ancora ce ne fosse bisogno dopo 14 anni di marchio comunitario, che la tutela dei marchi comunitari in Italia, scatta dal momento del deposito.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/S4U0di9cZTI/AAAAAAAAAE0/2fNaiAjIjm4/s1600-h/Rubik_cube2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441813406952482098" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/S4U0di9cZTI/AAAAAAAAAE0/2fNaiAjIjm4/s200/Rubik_cube2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il caso riguarda curiosamente un noto rompicapo: il “&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cubo di Rubik&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;”, il cui marchio è di proprietà della Seven Towns Ltd.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"&gt;La &lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Simba Toys GmbH produceva e commercializzava falsi “Cubi di Rubik&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;” con il nome di “Games and MORE”; il &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pubblico Ministero&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; di Novara delegato del caso aveva quindi emesso un &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;decreto di sequestro di tali prodotti&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il &lt;span style="color:#33ff33;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tribunale del Riesame aveva però disposto il dissequestro&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; dei falsi cubi, respingendo le accuse di contraffazione, ritenendo che il marchio non avrebbe mai dovuto essere stato registrato e la relativa domanda avrebbe dovuto essere respinta sulla base dell’esistenza di un impedimento assoluto alla registrazione dato che, quella del Cubo, è una forma meramente imposta da ragioni di utilità tecnica.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In sostanza, &lt;span style="color:#33ff33;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;secondo il Tribunale del Riesame, la registrazione del "Cubo di Rubik" come marchio di forma, sarebbe illegittima ai sensi&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; dell'art. 7, n. 1, lett. e), ii) Reg. C.E. n° 40/94 (ora &lt;span style="color:#33ff33;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;art. 7, n. 1, lett. e), iii), Reg. CE 207/2009&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6633ff;"&gt;Procuratore della Repubblica presso il Tribunale di Novara aveva proposto ricorso&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; avverso l’ordinanza del Tribunale del Riesame.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;La &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Suprema Corte ha accolto il ricorso del P.M. di Novara&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, sostenendo che il Tribunale del Riesame ha basato la sua decisione su una sostanziale dichiarazione d’invalidità del Marchio Comunitario senza, tuttavia, aver acquisito tutti i necessari elementi di valutazione ed in mancanza di un’esaustiva analisi delle norme applicabili.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In conclusione, il giudice di legittimità ha affermato che &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;la tutela dei marchi, deve decorrere dalla data del deposito della domanda di registrazione&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; conforme ai requisiti di legge – in quanto ciò rende formalmente conoscibili a terzi la descrizione e/o i modelli degli oggetti su cui si rivendicano i diritti esclusivi e pertanto ne rende possibile l’illecita riproduzione – &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;di modo che il reato di contraffazione di un marchio comunitario possa astrattamente configurarsi già nella fase di registrazione&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;V. anche: art. 15 e art. 132 CPI&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-7260906245442731696?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/7260906245442731696/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=7260906245442731696' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/7260906245442731696'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/7260906245442731696'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2010/02/la-corte-di-cassazione-risolve-il-cubo.html' title='La Corte di Cassazione risolve il Cubo di Rubik ?'/><author><name>Fabio Cammarata Pignato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16121985644143285107</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/S4U0di9cZTI/AAAAAAAAAE0/2fNaiAjIjm4/s72-c/Rubik_cube2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-4693426811489363681</id><published>2010-02-18T16:35:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2010-02-18T16:40:15.349+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dogane'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lorenzo Litta'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anticontraffazione'/><title type='text'>Container Control Program</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;i&gt;Lorenzo Litta&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt; Il &lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Programma di controllo dei Container&lt;/span&gt; promosso dalla &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Organizzazione Mondiale delle Dogane (WCO)&lt;/span&gt; e dalle &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;Nazioni Unite&lt;/span&gt; continua a migliorare i risultati.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt; Nato nel 2003 per incrementare i &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;fermi doganali in alcuni Paesi in via di sviluppo&lt;/span&gt;, su iniziativa de&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ecoble.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/container-city-ii.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 339px; height: 226px;" src="http://ecoble.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/container-city-ii.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;gli Uffici Doganali di Italia, Spagna, Germania, Canada, Stati Uniti, Francia, Danimarca e Norvegia, il &lt;i style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Container Control Program&lt;/i&gt; ha portato risultati significativi sia per quello che concerne i sequestri di droga che di merce contraffatta. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt; Il programma è stato esteso dapprima a&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204); font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ecuador, Senegal, Ghana e Pakistan &lt;/span&gt;(tutti individuati come principali Paesi di transito) poi a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;l &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 153, 153);"&gt;Turkmenistan&lt;/span&gt;, più recentemente a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;Panama, Costa Rica, Benin, Togo, Costa d'Avorio&lt;/span&gt; e potrebbe essere presto implementato anche in &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 204, 204);"&gt;Brasile&lt;/span&gt;, dove ad eccezione degli uffici doganali dell'area di San Paolo (Guarulhos e Santos), vi è poca conoscenza ed attenzione al problema della contraffazione.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Organizzazione Mondiale delle Dogane e dalle Nazioni Unite hanno anche siglato accordi di collaborazione con &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;nuovi partner istituzionali che consentiranno un migliore funzionamento del Programma, quali &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"&gt;Interpol, Unicri, l'Agenzia Internazionale per l'Energia Atomica&lt;/span&gt;, e l'Alleanza per il Commercio Sicuro.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt; Solo in Ecuador si sono sequestrati nel 2009:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;28,4 tonnellate di Cocaina.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;7,5 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;tonnellate&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt; di Cannabis.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;76 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;tonnellate di reagenti chimici tossici non autorizzati.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;9 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;tonnellate&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt; di pinne di squalo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;7 container di prodotti per la casa e capi di abbigliamento.&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;2 container di alcolici.&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;3 container di vari prodotti contraffatti.&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;45 container (per 1.545 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;tonnellate&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;) di legni pregiati in via di estinzione.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;4,5 milioni di pacchetti di sigarette contraffatte.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;numerosi container di prodotti non dichiarati (poi rivelatisi contraffatti).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-4693426811489363681?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/4693426811489363681/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=4693426811489363681' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/4693426811489363681'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/4693426811489363681'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2010/02/container-control-program.html' title='Container Control Program'/><author><name>Blogmaster</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08930373460758131951</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-4174624568682811890</id><published>2010-02-17T19:43:00.010+01:00</published><updated>2010-02-17T23:58:44.544+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ideacina'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stefano sandri'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ICE'/><title type='text'>IDEA CINA “Esperto in tutela della Proprietà Intellettuale con specializzazione sul mercato cinese”- La presentazione del 28 a Milano</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Blogmaster&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/S3x0MoFnmzI/AAAAAAAAAEs/jvdl-G0IeYk/s1600-h/DuomoMilano.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 138px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439350210224954162" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/S3x0MoFnmzI/AAAAAAAAAEs/jvdl-G0IeYk/s200/DuomoMilano.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"&gt;L’Istituto nazionale per il Commercio Estero, con il supporto del MIP, presenta a Milano, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;ICE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, Sala pirelli, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#00cccc;"&gt;C.so Magenta, 59, ore 09.30 il 26 febbraio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; la terza edizione del &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Corso post-laurea di alta formazione&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; con l’obiettivo di &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;formare e valorizzare giovani laureati&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; da inserire presso imprese, studi legali e di consulenza, associazioni, istituzioni, spin-off e consorzi universitari, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;in attività volte alla protezione della Proprietà Intellettuale e alla risoluzione di controversie commerciali&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Per permettere ai partecipanti di valutare al meglio tutti gli aspetti della Proprietà Intellettuale necessari per affrontare con successo il &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;mercato internazionale, ed in particolare quello cinese&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, il percorso formativo sarà multidisciplinare ed internazionale, prevedendo un periodo di docenze in aula, stage nazionali ed una esperienza in Cina di 3 mesi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/S3xzoGWrK-I/AAAAAAAAAEc/IKMcR5F_KNI/s1600-h/Cina+2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439349582694394850" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/S3xzoGWrK-I/AAAAAAAAAEc/IKMcR5F_KNI/s200/Cina+2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6600cc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Il Corso ha lo scopo di formare una nuova figura di esperto in tutela della Proprietà Intellettuale&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, l’Intellectual Property (IP) manager, che si in grado di operare nei contesti internazionali e, in particolare, sul mercato cinese. Al Corso partecipano 12 laureati in Giurisprudenza, Ingegneria, Economia , selezionati con concorso pubblico nazionale tra oltre 200 domande pervenute. Coordinatore e responsabile scientifico: Avv.Prof. Stefano Sandri .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nel corso della presentazione si terrà il seminario” Competere sui mercati internazionali: nuovi scenari, nuove sfide, nuove professionalità” , interventi di Pier Paolo Celeste (ICE), Li Bin (Console CINA), Stefano Sandri (Consigliere Speciale UAMI e coordinatore scientifico del Corso), Giovanni Casucci (Casucci Law Firm), Carlo Iannone (BARZANO’ &amp;amp; ZANARDO) rappresentante di ASSOLOMBARDA, Fabio Londero ( Danieli &amp;amp; C. Officine Meccaniche S.p.a), moderatore Rita Fatiguso, “Il Sole 24 Ore”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-4174624568682811890?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/4174624568682811890/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=4174624568682811890' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/4174624568682811890'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/4174624568682811890'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2010/02/idea-cina-esperto-in-tutela-della.html' title='IDEA CINA “Esperto in tutela della Proprietà Intellettuale con specializzazione sul mercato cinese”- La presentazione del 28 a Milano'/><author><name>Fabio Cammarata Pignato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16121985644143285107</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/S3x0MoFnmzI/AAAAAAAAAEs/jvdl-G0IeYk/s72-c/DuomoMilano.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-451554263509314241</id><published>2010-02-15T16:54:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2010-02-18T17:06:59.823+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='patents'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hybrid technology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lorenzo Litta'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='toyota'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='prius'/><title type='text'>Hybrid Technology Patent Research Project: The Toyota Case</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Lorenzo Litta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;A recent study conducted by the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;Japan Patent Office&lt;/span&gt; on global trends in the&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Electric Vehicles industry&lt;/span&gt; found that 76 percent of the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;16,670 patents&lt;/span&gt; filed for electric propulsion vehicles worldwide (here defined as pure electric vehicles, hybrids and fuel cell vehicles, yet excluding railroad vehicles) came from &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;Japanese companies&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p face="trebuchet ms" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.5cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2; text-align: justify;" lang="it-IT"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Ue3rHDC0Kc/S31laQHmicI/AAAAAAAAARw/RYXoZyTOsdI/s1600-h/hybrid+patents.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 507px; height: 88px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Ue3rHDC0Kc/S31laQHmicI/AAAAAAAAARw/RYXoZyTOsdI/s400/hybrid+patents.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439615426611284418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you can note from the tables, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Toyota has filed ''dramatically'' more patent applications than anyone else&lt;/span&gt;. What's surprising in this list is the fact that it only takes into account&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt; patent applications filed from 2001 to 2006&lt;/span&gt;, which is after the Prius debuted. Many more applications were filed in this time frame than in 1995-2000, and the numbers are still climbing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;For your better understanding &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;Toyota is the undisputed world leader in hybrid vehicle sales&lt;/span&gt;, and the Toyota Prius is a full hybrid electric mid-size car which first went on sale in 1997, making it the first mass-produced hybrid vehicle. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;The Prius is the most fuel efficient gas car currently sold &lt;/span&gt;and it is rated as among the cleanest vehicles sold based on smog forming and toxic emissions (89g/km). Toyota has just shown also a plug-in version and indicated that it plans to sell tens of thousands of plug-ins to the public soon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;This is a good example to show that &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;to win in patent wars is always necessary to keep improving your technology&lt;/span&gt;, still hard-working, developing and registering again...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-451554263509314241?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/451554263509314241/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=451554263509314241' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/451554263509314241'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/451554263509314241'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2010/02/hybrid-technology-patent-research.html' title='Hybrid Technology Patent Research Project: The Toyota Case'/><author><name>Blogmaster</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08930373460758131951</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Ue3rHDC0Kc/S31laQHmicI/AAAAAAAAARw/RYXoZyTOsdI/s72-c/hybrid+patents.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-4249827117840148143</id><published>2010-02-11T19:27:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2010-02-18T16:54:11.925+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stefano sandri'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CFI'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='homezone case'/><title type='text'>Il caso Homezone: riferibilità diretta ed immediata</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Stefano Sandri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div  style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Neanche un giorno dopo la &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;sentenza SupplementPack&lt;/span&gt;, la &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;T-344-07&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;,  &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;10 febbraio 2010&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;a sesta sezione del Tribunale&lt;/span&gt;, a conferm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/q-photo-road-sign-home-zone.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 168px; height: 214px;" src="http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/q-photo-road-sign-home-zone.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;a dell’incertezza sull’interpretazione della riferibilità diretta ed  immediata della descrittività ai prodotti o servizi, &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ha sancito la validità del marchio &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;Homezone&lt;/span&gt; (reso con «zona del domicilio» o di «zona di prossimità»)  nelle  classi 9, 38 e 42&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, pur riconoscendo che &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;nei servizi di telecomunicazione rientranti nella classe 38  e negli alti servizi tecnici delle classi 9 e 42 il temine «&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;homezone&lt;/span&gt;», era eventualmente associabile ad un’idea di localizzazione geografica&lt;/span&gt;, ed ha ritenuto che la decisione della Commisione di Ricorso impunata non avesse dimostrato quella riferibilità diretta ed immediata posta a base dell’impedimento della descrittività del marchio.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-4249827117840148143?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/4249827117840148143/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=4249827117840148143' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/4249827117840148143'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/4249827117840148143'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2010/02/blog-homezone.html' title='Il caso Homezone: riferibilità diretta ed immediata'/><author><name>Eleonora Fia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10953777337908380457</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-473107964689158429</id><published>2010-02-01T10:56:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2010-02-06T11:05:26.690+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marchi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='distintività'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Corte di Giustizia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stefano sandri'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='audi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='slogan'/><title type='text'>La Corte di Giustizia chiarisce il rapporto tra slogan e formule promozionali</title><content type='html'>&lt;div  style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Stefano Sandri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Nel mio commento al caso “&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;"&gt;real people, real solutions&lt;/span&gt;” e “&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;ultra plus&lt;/span&gt;” (&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/11/giurisprudenza-comunitaria-del-marchio.html"&gt;&lt;i style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;Giurisprudenza Comunitaria del Marchio&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, 2009, capitolo 24 e 25, rispettivamente) ho affrontato il problema della d&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;iversità tra i marchi costituiti da slogans ed  le mere espressioni laudative&lt;/span&gt; che normalmente marchi non sono. Nel descrivere lo s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;tato della giurisprudenza di Lusemburgo in tema ne ho rilevato l’incertezza della distinzione e la intrinseca ambiguità, nel sovrapporre  l’impedimento dell’art. 7, 1, d) (termini divenuti correnti nel linguaggio commerciale) al diverso impedimento dell’art.7,1, b) (che attiene alla mancanza di distintività).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Con particolare riferimento alla&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt; sentenza T-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;320/03&lt;/span&gt; nel caso “Vorsprung durch Technik” ho auspicato che la Corte di Giustizia facesse chiarezza.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Ora con sentenza  21 gennaio, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;C-398/08&lt;/span&gt;, su &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;ricorso dell’AUDI&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;la Corte ha riformato la sentenza pasticciata del Tribunale&lt;/span&gt;, che aveva fatto ancora una volta confusione tra slogan e “formula promozionale”, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;riconoscendo la validità dell&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/05/audi_r8_450.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 258px; height: 172px;" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/05/audi_r8_450.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;’espressione “Vorsprung durch Technik” (un salto attraverso la tecnica), ritenuta sufficientemente distintiva per contraddistinguere la identità e la provenienza delle autovetture  della casa tedesca.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In sostanza, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;la Corte ha rifiutato le posizioni preconcette che volevano l’accertamento della distintivitè dei marchi costituiti da slogan a criteri interpretativi più restrittivi&lt;/span&gt;  e che la distintività fosse, per definizione, esclusa se il messaggio portato dal segno avesse valore meramente promozionale e pubblicitario. Non esiste una categoria a sé ‘marchi di slogan’ e non può affatto escludersi che il segno possa, accanto alla funzione distintiva, assolvere ad altre funzioni di comunicazione e marketing, confermando in tal modo l’orientamento sempre più emergente (vedi da ultimo il caso L’Oreal)  della cumulabilità di funzioni integrative e complementari a quella classica dell’indicazione di provenienza del marchio.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"&gt;Se il messaggio non è abilitato a svolgere il ruolo del marchio, è evidente che non è registrabile come tale&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Resta un &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;mistero&lt;/span&gt; perché in tale ultimo caso l’esaminatore ad Alicante non faccia applicazione del ricordato impedimento rappresentato dalle espressioni elogiative, iperboliche comunemente ricorrenti in commercio, come da insegnamento della nostra giurisprudenza.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-473107964689158429?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/473107964689158429/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=473107964689158429' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/473107964689158429'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/473107964689158429'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2010/02/la-corte-di-giustizia-chiarisce-il.html' title='La Corte di Giustizia chiarisce il rapporto tra slogan e formule promozionali'/><author><name>Blogmaster</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08930373460758131951</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-5244696309423209143</id><published>2010-01-14T16:42:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2010-01-14T16:46:27.610+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Il design orafo a Vicenza</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Blogmaster&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div  style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Segnaliamo il convegno &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;IL DESIGN TRA MADE IN ITALY E CONT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.prime-news.info/wp-content/uploads/Vicenza.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 221px; height: 203px;" src="http://www.prime-news.info/wp-content/uploads/Vicenza.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;RAFFAZIONE&lt;/span&gt; che si terrà &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;mercoledì 20 gennaio 2010 dalle 9.30 alle 12.30&lt;/span&gt; all’interno della manifestazione &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"&gt;VicenzaOro First&lt;/span&gt; (Sala Trissino).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;La &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;partecipazione al convegno è gratuita&lt;/span&gt; previa registrazione.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Durante la mattinata i relatori presenteranno, attraverso alcuni interventi e casi pratici, le &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;recenti novità normative degli aspetti legati alla tutela dell’innovazione e del design&lt;/span&gt;, con particolare riferimento al settore orafo-argentiero, ma non solo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Per info:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;m.delluniversita@barzano-zanardo.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;, tel. 0444348210&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-5244696309423209143?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/5244696309423209143/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=5244696309423209143' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/5244696309423209143'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/5244696309423209143'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2010/01/il-design-orafo-vicenza.html' title='Il design orafo a Vicenza'/><author><name>Blogmaster</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08930373460758131951</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-957547036701945981</id><published>2009-12-12T20:11:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-18T18:08:53.141+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Abuse of Intellectual Property on pharmaceuticals: the European Commission Sector Inquiry</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Mauro Turrini&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;On 1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;sup style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153); font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;"&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt; December 2009 took place a seminar in Milan on &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;“Abuse of Intellectual Property on pharmaceuticals”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;. The seminar, which was mainly focused on the findings of the European Commission DG Competition Sector inquiry into pharmaceuticals (the “Inquiry”), also analyses the subtle and uncertain line diving lawful use from abuse of IPRs under existing legislation. Participate as speakers at the seminar also well known &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Italian IP experts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt; Giorgio Floridia and Paolo Auteri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;The Inquiry, which is the tool typically used by the Commission in order to improve its knowledge about a particular sector with a view to better identifying possible obstacles to competition, was essentially aimed at indentify the reasons why number of novel and innovative medicines reaching the market worryingly decreased over time and why generics medicines delay on entry on the EU market.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a style="" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/Syn6h-_6RQI/AAAAAAAAAQE/xQBqVVPH-CU/s1600-h/65186_sportpharmacy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/Syn6h-_6RQI/AAAAAAAAAQE/xQBqVVPH-CU/s320/65186_sportpharmacy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416135488643417346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;In particular, the Inquiry, which involved either originator either generic companies, for the purposes above analyses three main topics: patents; marketi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span lang="en-US"&gt;ng authorization for medicinal products and pricing and reimbursement. As to patents, the Commission analyses in particular proportion between patent granted and patent eventually sentenced void, patents litigation and relating settlement agreement, intervention before competent regulatory authorities at the time of generics marketing authorization proceedings based on claim for alleged patent infringements.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;At the seminar, it was debated by the panel of experts, whether some of the conducts above commonly put in place by originator companies in defense of their IPRs should be regard as lawful or not and therefore whether there was an use or abuse of IPRs. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;The panel of experts seemed not unanimous as to the legitimacy of all the behaviors described above. In particular, those in favor of the lawfulness of above mentioned use of IPRs (“use of patents”) stressed the facts that most of the conducts assessed by the EC are expressly allowed by existing legislation (e.g. to file a patent, to act against alleged infringers, intervene with observation on administrative proceedings), while those skeptic about the actual lawfulness of above mentioned use of IPRs (“abuse of patents”) referred to the well known principle of law that the use of rights for purposes otherwise than those intended by the legislation is itself a such an abuse of such rights.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;All members of the panel, however, concluded stating that further clarifications should be provided in the future either by the legislator or by the case law so to better identify the line between use an abuse of IPRs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-957547036701945981?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/957547036701945981/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=957547036701945981' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/957547036701945981'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/957547036701945981'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/12/abuse-of-intellectual-property-on.html' title='Abuse of Intellectual Property on pharmaceuticals: the European Commission Sector Inquiry'/><author><name>Eleonora Fia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10953777337908380457</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/Syn6h-_6RQI/AAAAAAAAAQE/xQBqVVPH-CU/s72-c/65186_sportpharmacy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-5597531023622028529</id><published>2009-12-05T13:27:00.015+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-05T21:33:00.785+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Quando un nemico comune esige un lavoro di squadra...</title><content type='html'>&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; color: rgb(204, 51, 204); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Eleonora Fia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Il 30 Novembre scorso è stato siglato a Milano l'accordo tra il Comando dei Carabinieri per la Tutela della Salute&lt;/span&gt;, che coordina l'attività dei N.a.s. &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;"&gt;e Federchimica&lt;/span&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt; l'accordo ha portata innovativa&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; infatti è la prima volta che un Comando dell'Arma  stringe un'intesa con un'associazione confindustr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/SxrCOv0OOAI/AAAAAAAAAP0/3mUE2H7Gv0g/s1600-h/Logo+Carabinieri.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/SxrCOv0OOAI/AAAAAAAAAP0/3mUE2H7Gv0g/s400/Logo+Carabinieri.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411851460848531458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;iale&lt;/span&gt; ed è stato accolto con grande soddisfazione in quanto &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;permetterà di sviluppare un'azione eff&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;icace contro gli illeciti e nondimeno di sensibilizzare l'opinione pubblica nei confronti di un fenomeno che nuoce ai consumatori,  alle imprese e a tutto il sistema Italia&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Il &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Presidente di Federchimica Giorgi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;o Squinzi&lt;/span&gt; ha sottolineato l'importanza di accordi come questi che vedano un'&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;alleanza&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt; strategica e concreta del privato con le istituzioni pubbliche&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;ed il&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Generale Cosimo Piccinno&lt;/span&gt; ha ricordato che &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;ciò che anima questa collaborazione è la volontà di salvaguardare la salute dei consumatori e la stabilità delle imprese sane del nostro Paese&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Preso atto che, sempre più spesso, i sequestri  di prodotti fuorilegge operati dai Carabinieri so&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;no intercettati con l'Aiuto delle Associazioni di categoria delle Imprese, &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;"&gt;si è voluto ridurre ogni possibile rischio di asimmetria informativa&lt;/span&gt;. L'accordo prevede l'&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;"&gt;elaborazione congiunta di strategie operative, monitoraggi e servizi di controllo su tutti i settori merceologici rappresentati da Federchimica, con il coinvolgimento attivo delle imprese alle attività investigative del Comando, anche fornendo dati relativi a smarrimenti, furti e rapine perpetrati in danno dei propri associat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ai Carabinieri in servizio ai N.A.S sarà fornità una formazione specifica ed esperti delle Associazioni di Federchimica terranno in favore dei Nuclei territoriali corsi di aggiornamento&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Prodotti chimici taroccati contenenti sostanze illegali sono presenti sul mercato in quantità preoccupanti&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Parlando in cifre &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;negli ultimi tre anni sono stati sequestrati prodotti fuorilegge per quasi 50 milioni di euro nel settore cosmetico e degli agrofarmaci cui si aggiungono quote di altri mercati come farmaci veterinari, principi attivi farmaceutici, medicinali di automedicazione e detergenti&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/SxrCYLMR0GI/AAAAAAAAAP8/Uy2kKwK7CQA/s1600-h/logoFederchimica.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 113px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/SxrCYLMR0GI/AAAAAAAAAP8/Uy2kKwK7CQA/s400/logoFederchimica.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411851622816010338" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;I cosmetici hanno in Italia un mercato di quasi 8.800 milioni di euro e si stima che il mercato parallelo , che potenzialmente copre il contraffatto, si aggiri sui 100 milioni di euro che si traduce nel &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;5% del mercato dei dentifrici e nel 10% del mercato dei profum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Per quanto riguarda gli &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;agrofarmaci&lt;/span&gt;, la quota di prodotti illegali perchè contraffatti, rubati o importati illegalmente è stimata intorno ai &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;30 milioni di euro, pari al 4% del totale&lt;/span&gt;. Agrofarma ( ASSOCIAZIONE NAZIONALE IMPRESE AGROFARMACI) è impegnata dal 2005 in una campagna contro l'utilizzo di agrofarmaci illegali infatti l'utilizzo di questi prodotti è estremamente pericoloso per la salute umana e per l'ambiente.&lt;br /&gt;Il fenomeno della contraffazione non risparmia neanche il settore dei prodotti per la salute animale infatti rappresenta il &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;3-5% delle specialità farmaceutiche per animali&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;La contraffazione è sempre esistita, ha una storia lunghissima e rappresenta un problema ricorrente ma è con la globalizzazione che ha raggiunto dimensioni inimmaginabili.&lt;br /&gt;L'errore di considerarla un'infrazione minore le ha permesso di guadagnarsi una fetta di mercato che oggi si assesta sul 5-7% del commercio mondiale. I traffici da essa generati stanno diventando una seria minaccia non solo per l'economia mondiale, ma anche per lo sviluppo a lungo termine; questi traffici rappresentano inoltre uno dei nuovi campi d'interesse oltre che dei contraffattori, della criminalità organizzata e del terrorismo internazionale.&lt;br /&gt;La contraffazione mette in pericolo la sicurezza dei consumatori ed influisce notevolmente sulle performance delle aziende e dell'indotto economico industriale con inevitabili conseguenze sui posti di lavoro  perciò ogni piccolo passo o azione inteso a prendere coscienza di questo fatto e ad ad arginare il fenomeno è degno di nota.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-5597531023622028529?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/5597531023622028529/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=5597531023622028529' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/5597531023622028529'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/5597531023622028529'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/12/quando-un-nemico-comune-esige-un-lavoro.html' title='Quando un nemico comune esige un lavoro di squadra...'/><author><name>Eleonora Fia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10953777337908380457</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/SxrCOv0OOAI/AAAAAAAAAP0/3mUE2H7Gv0g/s72-c/Logo+Carabinieri.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-3530524833869757566</id><published>2009-12-01T12:36:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-01T12:56:10.961+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mauro turrini'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='milano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tribunale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='made in italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ferrari'/><title type='text'>Economia nostrana</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;&lt;em&gt;Mauro Turrini&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p  align="justify" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Registriamo nell’ultimo  periodo due significative “iniziative” variamente a tutela della  imprenditoria nostrana. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;In particolare, ci riferiamo da un lato all’ordinanza  del tribunale di Milano che si esprime a favore del rosso Ferrari e  dall’altro alla proposta di legge Reguzzoni-Versace-Calearo a favore  del&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;Made &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;in&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;Italy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:GMyLdWrBWAqgcM:http://www.solorugby.org/data/solorugby/ferrari.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 115px;" src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:GMyLdWrBWAqgcM:http://www.solorugby.org/data/solorugby/ferrari.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;L’ordinanza, emessa  dal giudice della sezione specializzata del tribunale di Milano, Domenico  Bonaretti,  ha riconosciuto, tra gli altri, ampia tutelabilità a colore”  rosso ferrari” diffidando la società Promotive sporting collection  dall’importare e pubblicizzare prodotti contraddistinti da segni simili  a quelli utilizzati dalla ricorrente, la casa di Maranello, ivi incluso  il colore rosso. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 153, 153);" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Il giudice ha, altresì,  ritenuto che l’uso del colore rosso, quando effettuato unitamente  ad altri elementi caratterizzanti il marchio Ferrari (segnatamente,  scudetto e cavallino), costituisce violazione dei diritti della casa  di Maranello sotto i diversi profili della contraffazione di marchio,  dei segni distintivi non registrati, della concorrenza sleale (sotto  diversi profili), indipendentemente dalla sfumatura di rosso utilizzata  dalle società concorrenti.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Questa decisione assume  ancor più rilievo se si pensa che gli introiti derivanti dallo sfruttamento  del marchio del cavallino sembrerebbero ammonterebbero a circa 1,5 miliardi  di dollari.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Il progetto di legge  Reguzzoni-Versace-Calearo, che è destinato a suscitare le reazioni  delle grandi case che producono all’estero sulla base di design italiano,  cerca di valorizzare le produzioni “effettivamente italiane”, ossia  quelle i cui prodotti sono realizzati in modo preponderante nella nostra  penisola. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 153, 153);" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Il progetto di legge,  che prevede l’etichettatura obbligatoria di prodotti tessili, calzaturieri  e di pelletteria, prevede l’uso del marchio Made in Italy, quindi,  solo per i soli prodotti la cui lavorazione sia stata realizzata in  buona parte in Italia. Resterebbero, pertanto, come detto, esclusi tutti  prodotti “italiani” per ispirazione (design) ma realizzati altrove.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Il progetto di legge  prevede, infine, l’introduzione nei settori predetti di un sistema&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:fpyXMlFAGB-h8M:http://scheggedivetro.blogosfere.it/images/Made%20in%20Italy-thumb.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 124px; height: 86px;" src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:fpyXMlFAGB-h8M:http://scheggedivetro.blogosfere.it/images/Made%20in%20Italy-thumb.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;  di etichettatura obbligatoria, per prodotti finiti ed intermedi, allo  scopo di garantirne origine e tracciabilità. Quanto predetto, che cerca  evidentemente di venire incontro alle esigenze delle PMI artigiane italiane  (come affermato dallo stesso relatore del provvedimento, Enzo Raisi  – Pdl), si pone in linea, altresì, con il principio della tracciabilità  del prodotto indicato dalla stessa UE. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-3530524833869757566?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/3530524833869757566/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=3530524833869757566' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/3530524833869757566'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/3530524833869757566'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/12/economia-nostrana.html' title='Economia nostrana'/><author><name>Andrea Cicogna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01753243577452394535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-706998083666880731</id><published>2009-11-30T20:28:00.011+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-30T21:09:39.916+01:00</updated><title type='text'>“Strumenti competitivi nel mercato italiano e comunitario”</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Flavio Improta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;	&lt;meta equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;title&gt;ARTICOLO BLOG-ICE&lt;/title&gt;&lt;meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 2.0  (Linux)"&gt;&lt;meta name="AUTHOR" content="maurizio1"&gt;&lt;meta name="CREATED" content="20091127;17420000"&gt;&lt;meta name="CHANGEDBY" content="maurizio1"&gt;&lt;meta name="CHANGED" content="20091127;17420000"&gt; 	 	 	 	 	 	 	&lt;style type="text/css"&gt; 	&lt;!-- 		@page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } 		P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } 	--&gt;&lt;/style&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;In&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; data 25 Novembre 2009, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;dopo &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Palermo, Reggio Calabria, Vi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;terbo, C&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;ampo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;basso, Bari e Ancona&lt;/span&gt;, è toccato a &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Napoli&lt;/span&gt;, con la &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;suggestiva cornice della biblioteca Alfredo De &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Marsico di Castel Capuano&lt;/span&gt;, ospitare &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;l’ultimo seminario &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;“Strumenti competitivi nel mercato italiano e comunitario”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;frutto della &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;collaborazione tra l’UAMI e il DGLC-UIBM&lt;/span&gt; con obiettivo la &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;diffusione e lo sviluppo della consapevolezza da parte delle imprese degli strumenti che la P.I. può porre nelle loro mani&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;La&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;relazione introduttiva è stata svolta dall’&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Avv.to Francesco Caia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;, presidente del Consiglio dell’ordine degli Avvocati di Napoli&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Il &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Prof. Francesco Barra Caracciolo&lt;/span&gt;, quale Presidente della Commissione Osservatorio sulla P.I.I., ha coordinato i lavori, proseguiti con le relazioni della &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Dott.ssa Stefania Benincasa&lt;/span&gt;, dirigente della divisione marchi dell’UIBM e dell’&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Avv. Maurizio Borghese&lt;/span&gt; sulla funzione attrattiva del marchio e sulle più recenti modifiche legislative in materia di &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;“Made in”&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A seguire è intervenuto&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;l’Avv.to Emanuele Montelione&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;con una illustrazione sulle potenzialità dell’istituto del marchio comunitario, in connessione con la relativa agilità della procedura di registrazione e con la vasta tutela cui questa conduce una volta ottenuta.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;L’Avv.to Prof. Stefano Sandri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;, ha effettuato un’analisi sulle forme distintive e design in ambito comunitario, con particolare riferimento alle tematiche relative ai “marchi non convenzionali”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Gli&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Avv.ti Rossella Giordano e Natale Rampazzo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;, hanno analizzato alcuni recenti casi giurisprudenziali nazionali e comunitari, tra i quali:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt; “A-Style”, “Camomilla” e “Screw You”&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Si è, infine, dato inizio alla “tavola rotonda”, ove è stato possibile commentare e discutere sotto differenti punti di vista gli argomenti trattati e ove hanno trovato spazio e tempo temi aventi ad oggetto l&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;’analisi delle misure per combattere la contraffazione&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Tutti gli interventi saranno, a breve, resi disponibili presso i siti web dell’IPI e del Consiglio dell’Ordine degli Avvocati di Napoli.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Purtroppo vi è una &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;nota di rammarico &lt;/span&gt;in tale evento: &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;la bassa percentuale di aziende e imprenditori&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;C’è da sperare che, anche attraverso l’attività si sensibilizzazione di tali iniziative, vi sia un cambiamento di mentalità che induca le imprese ad occuparsi di “Proprietà Industriale” non soltanto quando si manifesti un problema da affrontare, considerandola, al contrario, un’opportunità di verifica e sviluppo delle proprie potenzialità.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-706998083666880731?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/706998083666880731/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=706998083666880731' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/706998083666880731'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/706998083666880731'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/11/strumenti-competitivi-nel-mercato.html' title='“Strumenti competitivi nel mercato italiano e comunitario”'/><author><name>Eleonora Fia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10953777337908380457</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-6787790931056719515</id><published>2009-11-25T21:57:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-25T22:18:37.986+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='counterfeiting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kalashnikov'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fabio Angelini'/><title type='text'>The counterfeit production of Kalashnikovs</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#66cccc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fabio Angelini&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#66cccc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"&gt;I’ve today read in Slodoban Petsevic’s newletter the following story:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc33;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There are about 100 million &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Kalashnikov&lt;/span&gt; assault rifles worldwide, of which half are counterfeit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, i.e. produced without licenses, patents and intergovernmental agreements. As a result of counterfeit productions across the world, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ff33;"&gt;the brand has been tarnished and Russia has incurred financial losses&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Russia is negotiating draft agreements with foreign producers of the weapon to protect the Kalashnikov&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, noting that China and a few Eastern European countries are prepared to negotiate such agreements.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/Sw2dsiEu-NI/AAAAAAAAAEM/qz2amwHywb0/s1600/Kalashnikov_AK-47.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 123px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408152115928299730" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/Sw2dsiEu-NI/AAAAAAAAAEM/qz2amwHywb0/s200/Kalashnikov_AK-47.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"&gt;During the Soviet era, Moscow signed 25-year license agreements with various communist satellites in Eastern Europe, authorizing them to produce Kalashnikovs. However, these agreements have expired.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"&gt;Russian weapons manufacturer &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Izhmash, which produces the Kalashnikov, secured a state patent for this weapon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; in year 1997 and began pressing foreign manufacturers to respect its intellectual property.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Secured a patent? For something which has been around for 25 years?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#33ff33;"&gt;I thought Russia was part of the GATT and had endorsed patent principles accepted allover the world&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a patent can be issued to an invention which is new&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, i.e never disclosed before anywhere in the world) , but evidently I was wrong….&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-6787790931056719515?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/6787790931056719515/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=6787790931056719515' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/6787790931056719515'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/6787790931056719515'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/11/counterfeit-production-of-kalashnikovs_25.html' title='The counterfeit production of Kalashnikovs'/><author><name>Fabio Cammarata Pignato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16121985644143285107</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/Sw2dsiEu-NI/AAAAAAAAAEM/qz2amwHywb0/s72-c/Kalashnikov_AK-47.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-6501972877311454177</id><published>2009-11-24T08:36:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-24T10:45:33.887+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nuovo libro'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marchio comunitario'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giurisprudenza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stefano sandri'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lorenzo Litta'/><title type='text'>GIURISPRUDENZA COMUNITARIA DEL MARCHIO - La nuova fatica del Prof. Sandri</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Lorenzo Litta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Ecco un nuovo libro che non potrà mancare nelle librerie di utenti e appassionati del marchio comunitario. Si tratta dell'ultima fatica del &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://stefanosandri.blogspot.com/"&gt;Prof. Sandri&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Di seguito la presentazione del testo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;style&gt;  &lt;!--   @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm }   P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm }   A:link { color: #0000ff }  --&gt;  &lt;/style&gt; &lt;p  style="margin-left: 0.95cm; margin-right: 1.97cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.6cm; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 153, 153); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" align="justify"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;L’Autore, al suo rientro in Italia, mette a punto la sua esperienza di giudice amministrativo del marchio comunitario, maturata nel corso del tempo nel contesto europeo  giuridico e giurisdizionale del marchio comunitario.  Ne è nato uno strumento di lavoro, pratica e conoscenza che consente all’operatore, come al giurista puro, l’aggiornamento sulla evoluzione interpretativa ed applicativa  di questo istituto, sempre più armonizzato con il nostro diritto interno, che anticipa per molti versi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p  style="margin-left: 0.95cm; margin-right: 1.97cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.6cm; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 153, 153); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" align="justify"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;La massa di materiale che la Corte di giustizia ha prodotto a partire dal 2000 è stato selezionato per rappresentare le linee di tendenza giurisprudenziale sulle diverse problematiche.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p  style="margin-left: 0.95cm; margin-right: 1.97cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.6cm; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 153, 153); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" align="justify"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Il commentario viene e presentato per temi, in modo da permetterne una rapida consultazione mirata utilizzando quattro indici di accesso e collegamento. &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  style="margin-left: 0.95cm; margin-right: 2.08cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" align="justify"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Il testo, p. 592, € 56,00, è in distribuzione nelle librerie giuridiche  e può anche essere ordinato, senza spese di spedizione, direttamente all’editore Experta S.p.A., C.so della Repubblica, 144 ‐ 47100 Forlì, tel. 0543.370355 ‐ fax 0543.33769, per ulteriori informazioni: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;info@experta.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-6501972877311454177?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/6501972877311454177/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=6501972877311454177' title='3 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/6501972877311454177'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/6501972877311454177'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/11/giurisprudenza-comunitaria-del-marchio.html' title='GIURISPRUDENZA COMUNITARIA DEL MARCHIO - La nuova fatica del Prof. Sandri'/><author><name>Blogmaster</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08930373460758131951</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-7848769111479211747</id><published>2009-11-16T13:24:00.010+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-16T13:36:58.047+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Plagio fotografico a Parma</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Stefano Sandri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Segnalo il &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;seminario&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; di cui alla locandina, perché di particolare interesse in un'area ancora non sufficientemente esplorata, ma di grande attualità&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/SwFF0d422CI/AAAAAAAAAD0/Z84Vui5zCC0/s1600/Plagio.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 398px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 329px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404677795499923490" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/SwFF0d422CI/AAAAAAAAAD0/Z84Vui5zCC0/s400/Plagio.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/SwFF0d422CI/AAAAAAAAAD0/Z84Vui5zCC0/s1600/Plagio.gif"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/SwFF0d422CI/AAAAAAAAAD0/Z84Vui5zCC0/s1600/Plagio.gif"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-7848769111479211747?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/7848769111479211747/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=7848769111479211747' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/7848769111479211747'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/7848769111479211747'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/11/plagio-fotografico-parma.html' title='Plagio fotografico a Parma'/><author><name>Fabio Cammarata Pignato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16121985644143285107</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/SwFF0d422CI/AAAAAAAAAD0/Z84Vui5zCC0/s72-c/Plagio.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-6440572515710925022</id><published>2009-11-12T18:45:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-12T19:01:42.065+01:00</updated><title type='text'>CIAO, DAMASO</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;Stefano Sandri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;“Senza cultura non c’è progresso e senza progresso non c’è futuro”, “Mi fa piacere che&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/SvxLUirxsJI/AAAAAAAAAPc/_XXVnRO9BVw/s1600-h/blogele.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 167px; height: 164px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/SvxLUirxsJI/AAAAAAAAAPc/_XXVnRO9BVw/s400/blogele.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403276469217636498" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; questo sia il tuo pensiero”, mi disse qualche settimana fa Dámaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; all’hotel Melia di Alicante, dove eravamo alloggiati in occasione del Symposium dei Giudici. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Non avrei mai immaginato &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;che&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; queste sarebbero state le ultime parole che avrei ascoltato dalla Sua viva voce. Ora che non c'è più, non mancherà chi Lo ricorderà come uno dei più brillanti protagonisti del mondo della Proprietà Intellettuale. Da parte mia mi sento privato di uno dei miei riferimenti.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Con Damaso non posso dire che sia intercorsa una vera&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; amicizia, ma certo ci siamo andati molto vicini. Il fatto è che nei nostri incontri e rare frequentazioni , non parlavamo mai di diritto, ma di arte, musica, filosofia, o altro  e questo grazie ad una Sua  naturale disponibilità, aiutato in ciò  dalla Sua genuina ispanicità, e spontanea propensione verso tutto quello che rappresenta la cultura in senso lato e che traspariva sempre nelle Sue magistrali ‘opinion’ come Avvocato Generale della Corte di Giustizia, dove era stato prima ancora  giudice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Il diritto, anche quello dei marchi, era il campo sperimentale del Suo spirito di osservazione. Sapeva, nella soluzione dei problemi, guardare lontano e prima degli altri. Entrammo subito in sintonia elettiva, sin dai primi incontri di oltre dieci anni fa e per questo  non rinunciavo mai al piacere di una Sua elegante conversazione extra moenia. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Ora non sarà più possibile. Resta la melanconia del ricordo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-6440572515710925022?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/6440572515710925022/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=6440572515710925022' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/6440572515710925022'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/6440572515710925022'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/11/ciao-damaso.html' title='CIAO, DAMASO'/><author><name>Eleonora Fia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10953777337908380457</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/SvxLUirxsJI/AAAAAAAAAPc/_XXVnRO9BVw/s72-c/blogele.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-8773613405364304868</id><published>2009-11-05T16:28:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-05T16:36:50.367+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dogane'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lorenzo Litta'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Finlandia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Contraffazione'/><title type='text'>In Finlandia meglio un cric... che una borsa chic!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Lorenzo Litta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.undp.org/mdtf/one-un-funds/tanzania/images/finland.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 212px; height: 141px;" src="http://www.undp.org/mdtf/one-un-funds/tanzania/images/finland.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"&gt;Le statistiche 2009 dimostrano che i &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;casi di contraffazione sono aumentati anche&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt; in Fin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;landia&lt;/span&gt;, Paese storicamente estraneo alle principali "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;rotte del falso&lt;/span&gt;", come segnalato dal Funzionario dell'Ufficio Doganale Mr. Ryyttäri.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"&gt; Ovviamente sono sempre numerosi i sequestri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"&gt; di accessori, pelletter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"&gt;ia e abbigliamento, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"&gt;ma crescono i blocchi di prodotti tecnologici (cellulari e loro accessori, CD, DVD, caricatori...) e &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;sorprendentemente oltre ai pezzi di ricambio, sono in aumento i "cric" per auto contraffatti &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.thyssens.com/04assassinat/pieces_a_convic/images/Cric3.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 191px; height: 264px;" src="http://www.thyssens.com/04assassinat/pieces_a_convic/images/Cric3.JPG" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" &gt; Si tratta sempre di statistiche ma &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;dimostrano come anche il mercato del falso stia cambiando con la crisi&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:-1;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; Tuttavia, sempre secondo Mr. Ryyttäri quasi tutta la merce sequestrata era in transito verso UE, Russia e USA, in quanto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; i consumatori finlandesi non accettano di acquistare consapevolmente prodotti c&lt;/span&gt;ontraffatti &lt;/span&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-8773613405364304868?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/8773613405364304868/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=8773613405364304868' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/8773613405364304868'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/8773613405364304868'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/11/in-finlandia-meglio-un-cric-che-una.html' title='In Finlandia meglio un cric... che una borsa chic!'/><author><name>Blogmaster</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08930373460758131951</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-8661464661688116914</id><published>2009-11-05T16:17:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-05T16:24:13.848+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='master'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ideacina'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stefano sandri'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ICE'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Intellectual Property'/><title type='text'>III Edizione Master IDEA CINA</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Blogmaster&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-top: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0.49cm; font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;E’ stato pubblicato il bando della &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;terza edizione di &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;IDEA CINA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, il Co&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;rso post-laurea che l'Istituto del Commercio Estero, ICE,  organizza per formare&lt;b style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt; &lt;i&gt;Intellectual Property Manager&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; da inserire presso aziende, studi legali e di consulenza, società di architettura e design. 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style="font-size:85%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;IDEA CINA ha l'obiettivo di accrescere la competitività del sistema Italia e &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Ue3rHDC0Kc/SvLt5o-TyYI/AAAAAAAAARY/8qZTreHTJKA/s1600-h/ideacina.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 216px; height: 78px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Ue3rHDC0Kc/SvLt5o-TyYI/AAAAAAAAARY/8qZTreHTJKA/s200/ideacina.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400640477677734274" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;la tutela del Made in Italy&lt;/span&gt; attraverso una specifica formazione&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;sulla proprietà intellettuale ed industriale con particolare riferimento alla Cina.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;L’iniziativa rappresenta, per il mondo delle imprese italiane e degli studi legali e professionali, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;un’opportunità per sperimentare e valorizzare giovani &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;Intellectual Property&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt; (IP) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;manager.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Il Corso si articola in:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;-&lt;/b&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 204, 204);"&gt;formazione in aula&lt;/span&gt; - &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;c.a. 4 mesi&lt;/span&gt; con inizio previsto a &lt;b&gt;febbraio 2010&lt;/b&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;-&lt;/b&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 204, 204);"&gt;fase di stage in Italia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt; - c.a. 2 mesi&lt;/b&gt; presso aziende o studi legali e di consulenza;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;- circa tre settimane di studio e approfondimento presso un'università cinese (&lt;b style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;&lt;i&gt;study tour&lt;/i&gt; in Cina&lt;/b&gt;), visite e incontri con esperti di studi legali, aziende e istituzioni; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;-&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 204, 204);"&gt;fase di stage in Cina&lt;/span&gt; - c.a. 2&lt;/b&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;mesi &lt;/span&gt;presso un ufficio della rete estera dell'ICE in Cina, presso la filiale di un'azienda italiana o  di uno studio legale internazionale. &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;I vincitori delle selezioni non sostengono alcun costo di partecipazione e beneficiano di borse di studio ICE e &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"&gt;biglietto aereo A/R per la fase di stage in Cina&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Al Corso, la cui fase d'aula si svolgerà a Milano, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;sono ammessi 12 laureati in Giurisprudenza, Economia, Ingegneria, Biotecnologie, Farmacia, Chimica, Architettura e Design&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Il corso propone una formazione interdisciplinare della proprietà intellettuale orientata al solving problem ed è condotto sotto la responsabilità del coordinatore scientifico e didattico &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://stefanosandri.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;i style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Avv. Prof. Stefano Sandri&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-family: trebuchet ms;" align="justify"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-8661464661688116914?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/8661464661688116914/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=8661464661688116914' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/8661464661688116914'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/8661464661688116914'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/11/iii-edizione-master-idea-cina.html' title='III Edizione Master IDEA CINA'/><author><name>Blogmaster</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08930373460758131951</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Ue3rHDC0Kc/SvLt5o-TyYI/AAAAAAAAARY/8qZTreHTJKA/s72-c/ideacina.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-6133802048823231918</id><published>2009-11-04T22:10:00.010+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-16T13:23:31.378+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tractors'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BCS S.p.A.'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stefano sandri'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CFI'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='combination of colours'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='libertel'/><title type='text'>Do you ever buy a tractor at a trade fair  because of the colour you have selected?</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(255,153,0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Stefano Sandri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,255)"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BCS S.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/SvG9vm7VoAI/AAAAAAAAADE/w6nxKWKrpV0/s1600-h/colori.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,255)"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 86px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 116px" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400306053794865154" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/SvG9vm7VoAI/AAAAAAAAADE/w6nxKWKrpV0/s200/colori.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,255)"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;p.A., an Italian company, brought an action with CFI against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of O&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,255)"&gt;HIM relating to invalidity proceedings between BCS SpA and Deere &amp;amp; Company.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,153)"&gt;The products involved were agricultural machines&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, in particular farm tractors, small tractors, land tractors and trailers &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,153)"&gt;covered by a Community colour trademark registration filed by Deere &amp;amp; Company&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, USA. &lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(153,51,153)"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The combination of &lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(51,204,0)"&gt;green&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(255,204,0)"&gt;yellow&lt;/span&gt; colours, was described as being ‘&lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(51,204,0)"&gt;green&lt;/span&gt; for the vehicle body and &lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(255,204,0)"&gt;yellow&lt;/span&gt; for the wheels’&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, as is shown b&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"&gt;y a picture attached to the application and reproduced on the right:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: right; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 194px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 141px" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400307764557675554" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/SvG_TMA-fCI/AAAAAAAAADk/GQ8vlCSbP8k/s200/trattore.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CFI&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, by its decision &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"&gt;T- 137/08, 28 October 2009&lt;/span&gt; , &lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(51,204,0)"&gt;dismissed the action, being had proved by Deere &amp;amp; Company –according to the court - that the disputed mark had become distinctive within the terms of Article 7(3) of Regulation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The court is very care on the analysis of the evidence submitted by the defendant in supporting the acquiring distinctiveness of the sign, &lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(255,153,0)"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;notwithstanding that in the subject area the perception of the relevant public could be mainly focusing the company name and logo imprinted on the trucks.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The judgment makes a clear application of the criteria and standard on Article 7, 3 of the Regulation, since CHIEMSEE. &lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(255,153,0)"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It seems, however, it has been missed the legal key point, as to say what is the impact of the nature of the sign, a combination of colours, on the association process enabling the relevant public to identify the commercial origin of the goods bearing that combination of colours.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"&gt;This issue has nothing to do with a more restrict attitude in assessing the acquired distinctiveness of the sign because of its composition&lt;/span&gt; (see paragraph 28).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To the contrary one has to keep in mind the teaching of &lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the Court of Justice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; to the extent that &lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“while the public is accustomed to perceiving word or figurative marks instantly as signs identifying the commercial origin of the goods, the same is not necessarily true where the sign forms part of the look of the goods in respect of which registration of the sign as a trade mark is sought. Consumers are not in the habit of making assumptions about the origin of goods based on their colour or the colour of their packaging, in the absence of any graphic or word element, because as a rule a colour per se (or a combination of colours) is not, in current commercial practice, used as a means of identification.”(LIBERTEL case).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;In this respect, there is no in the judgement a mention whatsoever as to whether the contested decision carried out an investigation on how the relevant public might associate a colour in the subject case to the origin of the concerned products. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-6133802048823231918?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/6133802048823231918/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=6133802048823231918' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/6133802048823231918'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/6133802048823231918'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/11/do-you-ever-buy-tractor-at-trade-fair.html' title='Do you ever buy a tractor at a trade fair  because of the colour you have selected?'/><author><name>Fabio Cammarata Pignato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16121985644143285107</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/SvG9vm7VoAI/AAAAAAAAADE/w6nxKWKrpV0/s72-c/colori.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-2294820276582653478</id><published>2009-11-03T10:59:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-03T13:25:33.043+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stefano sandri'/><title type='text'>A ‘panoramic’ view of descriptic character</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span  lang="en-GB" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;Stefano Sandri&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span  lang="en-GB" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span  lang="en-GB" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;According to CFI , T- 339/07, 28 October 2009,  the term « panorama » is  descriptive of one of the main characteristic on the aquarium on the market (see as an example). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-right: 2.08cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: trebuchet ms;" align="justify"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-right: 0.05cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" align="justify"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;On particular the term &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;« panorama »&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;should describe  the circular view or the free and extended visual area on the aquarium that it implies some self evident advantages on side of the observers (paragraph 35). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/Su8scesenuI/AAAAAAAAAPE/JAbkr1yMcNU/s1600-h/blog.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 129px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/Su8scesenuI/AAAAAAAAAPE/JAbkr1yMcNU/s320/blog.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399583346028093154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-right: 0.05cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;We may agree on that conclusion, even though it may rely to a certain second level of visual association, typical of the evocative/suggestive trade marks.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;n this respect the Court is very careful in pointing out that for the purpose of applying Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation it is necessary only to consider, on the basis of the relevant meaning of the word sign at issue, that  from the viewpoint of the public addressed, there is a sufficiently &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;" lang="en-GB"&gt;direct and specific(and spontaneous) relationship&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt; between the sign and the goods for which registration is sought (paragraph 27).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;It is here the case?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;I fear that the analysis of the court should be a little more deeper when examining how the sign is actually perceived by the relevant public (paragraph 28). Since the likelihood of confusion includes also the likelihood of association, it makes still&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;" lang="en-GB"&gt; sense exclude from the registration the signs which can cause such an association?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p  style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-right: 0.03cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" align="justify"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;I understand that in some case is not easy to decide whether the association occurs in suggestive/evocative  signs. We could however adopt the criteria drawn from INTEL, as to say that there is likelihood of association, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;&lt;i&gt;e.i&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt; the sign is not descriptive or affected by other grounds refusal whenever the consumers shall diverge in a conclusive way from their normal attitude in purchase behaviour taking in account the nature of the products/services.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p  style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-right: 0.05cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" align="justify" lang="en-GB"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;I made this proposal, in a different legal contest, in Alicante at the occasion of the recent Judges symposium, raising apparently agreement on side of the  EU Commission and General Advocates who were attending the meeting.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-right: 2.08cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="justify" lang="en-GB"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-2294820276582653478?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/2294820276582653478/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=2294820276582653478' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/2294820276582653478'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/2294820276582653478'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/11/panoramic-view-of-descriptic-character.html' title='A ‘panoramic’ view of descriptic character'/><author><name>Eleonora Fia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10953777337908380457</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/Su8scesenuI/AAAAAAAAAPE/JAbkr1yMcNU/s72-c/blog.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-1139363319281552533</id><published>2009-11-02T20:23:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-02T20:39:03.039+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Judges Symposium</title><content type='html'>&lt;meta equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;title&gt;&lt;/title&gt;&lt;meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 2.4  (Win32)"&gt;&lt;style type="text/css"&gt; 	&lt;!-- 		@page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } 		P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm &lt;/style&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;Stefano Sandri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="margin-left: -0.03cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;European Judges coming from 27 countries gathered at Alicante  for the Sy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;mpo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;siu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;m  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="en"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;held from 21-23 October.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;In the agenda, inter-alia, the concept of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" lang="en-IE"&gt;bad faith and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span lang="en-IE"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="en-IE"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;the first preliminary ruling of CFI regarding the Community Design Regulation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/Su8zq-sKEeI/AAAAAAAAAPU/uMtsm6rOuH4/s1600-h/giotto+di+Bodone+-+giustizia+-+Padova+1306.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 174px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/Su8zq-sKEeI/AAAAAAAAAPU/uMtsm6rOuH4/s320/giotto+di+Bodone+-+giustizia+-+Padova+1306.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399591291716243938" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-left: -0.03cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="en-IE"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Court of Venice was represented by the judge Maria Antonia Maiolino who delivered a speech on the notion of bad faith in the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="en-IE"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;practice of a na&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="en-IE"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;tional court, with part&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="en-IE"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;icular reference to the Italian case Valigeria RONCATO.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;This issue is particularly up to date since &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;latel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="en-IE"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;y  Court of Justice  for the first time has taken a position on the concept bad faith of the applicant before theregistration date &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;(C- &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;529/07, 11 June 2009, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" lang="en-GB"&gt;Chocoladenfabriken Lindt &amp;amp; Sprüngli, see my spot on the Fighting bunny&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;, 31 August 2009)&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-left: -0.03cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;The debate was very intensive and I have also the chance to present my interpretative proposal on bad faith within the frame of the Community trademark law &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;see my spot on   &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;PANORAMA CASE&lt;/span&gt; and my latest article on the subject&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" lang="en-GB"&gt;La mala fede del richiedente il marchio comunitario&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;,  in Il Dir. Ind., 2009 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-1139363319281552533?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/1139363319281552533/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=1139363319281552533' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/1139363319281552533'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/1139363319281552533'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/11/judges-symposium.html' title='Judges Symposium'/><author><name>Eleonora Fia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10953777337908380457</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/Su8zq-sKEeI/AAAAAAAAAPU/uMtsm6rOuH4/s72-c/giotto+di+Bodone+-+giustizia+-+Padova+1306.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-3172413766575279611</id><published>2009-11-01T00:40:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-05T16:27:30.601+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Qiagen GmbH'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CureVac GmbH'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stefano sandri'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='RNA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CFI'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chemical'/><title type='text'>‘Ribonucleid acid’: a difficult expression and a difficult case</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stefano Sandri&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;‘&lt;strong&gt;RNA’ stands clearly for ‘Ribonucleid acid’&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;, at least for the chemic-pharmaceutical people. However, what about the end-consumers? Do they are reasonably well informed, observant and circumspect as to understand the significant of the mentioned acronym?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;I don’t think so.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; This is one of the many questions, doubts and incertitude lately raised by the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;CFI, T- T‑80/08, 28 October 2009, CureVac GmbH v. Qiagen GmbH&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;where the problem faced was to decide whether the trade marks RNAiF and RNActive were confusingly similar, or not, in relation to more or less identical/similar products&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chemical and pharmaceuticals marks came once again at the attention of the court&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and they risk to be converted in a crucial and puzzling legal problem. This judgement does not go out of a sort of contradiction and dangerous omission. &lt;a style="" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/SvCipdvzZ_I/AAAAAAAAACU/66lByexujn0/s1600-h/RNA.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 169px; float: right; height: 310px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399994786460690418" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/SvCipdvzZ_I/AAAAAAAAACU/66lByexujn0/s200/RNA.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chemicals – say the decision - are aimed at a specialised public&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (in particular, chemists and laboratory personnel). &lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Also end consumers, nevertheless, have a high level of attention in this case, and are assisted in their choice by highly qualified professionals&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (paragraph 29). Fine, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;that means that both the public should recognize the mere descriptive meaning of the first part of the two marks.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;It follows that, according to the court, the attention must focused on the second one, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;‘ifect’ respectively, and ‘ctive’. Are these terms&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, although seen in the perspective of a global assessment – which belongs to the accuracy of the decisional iter - and impression - which has to do with the perception of the consumers – are &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;dissimilar&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (notwithstanding the identity/quasi identity of the products, the primacy of the first part of the marks, the identical graphic predominance of RNA) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;The analysis of the CFI seems to make abstraction of the relevant and pertinent circumstances in this case represented by the assessment as to how the products reach the market.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;Accordingly it seems to me quite marginal and not realistic to overestimate the criteria of the phonetic and visual effect&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (paragraph 38 to 42), &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;since the nature of the products in question remits in first instance to the semantic value of the two signs in their global meaning.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;The public, at which the products aim, are educated people who will consider the meaning of ‘ifect’ and ‘ctive’ equivalent ( because ‘ the two terms refer to the notion of effectiveness or the word ‘effective’&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, as pointed out by the appellant), a presumption which is not contradicted by the sophisticated distinction in the German language, paragraph 44). &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Finally, the assumption that the notion of effectiveness or the word ‘effective’ ‘requires the consumer in question to deconstruct the sign too much in order to make an association between the two signs at issue&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, and thus seems too improbable to be accepted’ (same paragraph 44; pls note that the argument is the mere one presented by the court) &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;is clearly wrong in the light of the communication rules to the extent they are applicable to the trade mark, intended and acknowledged as a communication tool&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;It is indeed well known scientifically that in any language transmission the sign must firstly be decoded (deconstruct), and subsequently coded, pursuant a psychologic process governed by perception system where the receptor of the sign does not exercise any (rational) effort&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (for a full demonstration see my work . ‘Percepire il marchio’ , 2006).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-3172413766575279611?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/3172413766575279611/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=3172413766575279611' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/3172413766575279611'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/3172413766575279611'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/11/ribonucleid-acid-difficult-expression.html' title='‘Ribonucleid acid’: a difficult expression and a difficult case'/><author><name>Fabio Cammarata Pignato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16121985644143285107</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/SvCipdvzZ_I/AAAAAAAAACU/66lByexujn0/s72-c/RNA.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-258924840048391029</id><published>2009-10-30T13:54:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-03T15:35:22.359+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='INPI'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Portogallo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Proprietà Industriale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Codice'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fabio Cammarata Pignato'/><title type='text'>Le recenti modifiche al Codice Portoghese della Proprietà Industriale</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Fabio Cammarata Pignato&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Le &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;modifiche al Codice Portoghese della Proprietà Industriale&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; pubblicate il 25 luglio 2008 &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;sono &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;entrate in vigore l’1 ottobre 2008&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/Su4pdzA0MCI/AAAAAAAAAAk/J9CkpmE5hc0/s1600-h/Portugal.gif"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/Su-nJE-fE5I/AAAAAAAAABU/ZJvJ2LxaV1M/s1600-h/Portugal.gif"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/Su-5VCurWRI/AAAAAAAAAB8/SIaMhRxzw6A/s1600-h/Portugal.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399738249401555218" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; width: 200px; height: 133px;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/Su-5VCurWRI/AAAAAAAAAB8/SIaMhRxzw6A/s200/Portugal.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Scopo prevalente della novella è stato la &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;semplificazione e l’accelerazione delle procedure dinnanzi all’&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marcasepatentes.pt/index.php?section=1"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ufficio Portoghese Marchi e Brevetti&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Uno dei cambiamenti maggiormente degni di nota concerne il deposito delle dichiarazioni periodiche di volontà d’utilizzo dei marchi (DIUs), il quale non è più richiesto al fine di mantenere valida la registrazione di un marchio Portoghese o Internazionale. La nuova normativa stabilisce, infatti, che &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);"&gt;i&lt;strong&gt; marchi le cui DIUs, in passato, non siano state depositate, non saranno più soggetti a cancellazione&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Un ulteriore cambiamento ha riguardato la riunione dei nomi e dei segni commerciali nei Logotipi: a partire dalla richiesta di quest’ultimo, da parte del loro proprietario, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;gli esistenti nomi e segni commerciali saranno rinumerati e soggetti alle regole stabilite per il Logotipi&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Nelle le domande di nuovi Logotipi è ora obbligatorio specificare i beni e i servizi da tutelare&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Diversi termini procedurali sono stati ridotti&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, inclusi quelli relativi alle proroghe dei termini previsti per le opposizioni al deposito, alle controdichiarazioni o alle repliche alle decisioni provvisorie di rifiuto emesse dall’&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marcasepatentes.pt/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ufficio Portoghese Marchi e Brevetti&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/Su4qGE2_9qI/AAAAAAAAAAs/t46P4brnTZk/s1600-h/01-11-09_2235.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/Su-nr8t0khI/AAAAAAAAABc/DSmWQypfX4g/s1600-h/INPI.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/Su-4uuelw0I/AAAAAAAAAB0/YSZaA1pyYW0/s1600-h/INPI.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399737591130342210" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; width: 320px; height: 106px;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/Su-4uuelw0I/AAAAAAAAAB0/YSZaA1pyYW0/s320/INPI.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Il deposito delle opposizioni tardive non è più ammesso&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, a prescindere dalle ragioni che hanno condotto al ritardo. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;Tuttavia, è possibile domandare la sospensione dei procedimenti per un periodo di tempo più &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;lungo. Ciò assume particolare rilievo nelle ipotesi in cui le parti entrino in una fase di trattative funzionali ad una risoluzione amichevole della controversia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Dato che le surriferite &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;modifiche&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; erano state apportate di recente (ottobre 2008) non se ne attendevano di ulteriori nell’immediato futuro. Tuttavia, e senza alcuna previa consultazione o comunicato, &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ne sono state appena pubblicate di nuove&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (14 ottobre 2009), &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;entrate in vigore il 23 ottobre 2009&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A partire da questa data, le tasse di concessione per i marchi non sono più dovute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. Tale abolizione non ha riflessi sulle tasse di domanda, il cui valore rimane immutato.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;L’attuale modifica legislativa presenta alcuni effetti retroattivi: essa, infatti, copre anche quei &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;marchi concessi prima del 23 ottobre 2009 ma il cui termine di pagamento della tassa di concessione (con o senza sovrattassa) scade dopo tale data&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;; pertanto, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;in dette ipotesi, tale tassa non è più dovuta&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;Per i marchi la cui riconvalida scade il 23 ottobre, il valore di questa tassa è di 60,00 €&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Riassumendo, per tutti i marchi la cui concessione è stata pubblicata dopo il 23 ottobre 2008 non è richiesto alcun pagamento della tassa di concessione&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Il rimborso non è previsto per le ipotesi in cui i proprietari abbiano già effettuato il pagamento della tassa di concessione&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, sebbene avessero potuto giovarsi delle anzidette modifiche.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Un ultimo cambiamento riguarda &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;il trasferimento dei diritti di Proprietà Industriale a seguito di atti di fusione o scissione registrati in Portogallo&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (persone giuridiche Portoghesi). &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In queste particolari ipotesi, il pagamento della tassa di registrazione del trasferimento non è più richiesta&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. Tale modifica ha effetto immediato.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-258924840048391029?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/258924840048391029/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=258924840048391029' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/258924840048391029'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/258924840048391029'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/11/le-recenti-modifiche-al-codice_03.html' title='Le recenti modifiche al Codice Portoghese della Proprietà Industriale'/><author><name>Fabio Cammarata Pignato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16121985644143285107</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QSeBAE9jcHc/Su-5VCurWRI/AAAAAAAAAB8/SIaMhRxzw6A/s72-c/Portugal.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-8865359389486007988</id><published>2009-10-21T12:47:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-21T13:21:39.070+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='De Simone'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Minister'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='law'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='italian style'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='made in italy'/><title type='text'>News on Made in...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://www.desimonepartners.com/a1.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;Domenico de Simone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Yesterday afternoon at Confindustria has been given the &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;official notice that on the initiative of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://wimexllc.com/ESW/Images/made-in-italy-bandiera-italiana-ortofrutta.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 225px; height: 179px;" src="http://wimexllc.com/ESW/Images/made-in-italy-bandiera-italiana-ortofrutta.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt; Trade Commissioner Catherine Ashton, the 133 Committee resumed his work in order to bring into question the "Made in..." argument&lt;/span&gt;, on which Italy has already widely deployed itself&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;The Government, in the person of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);"&gt;Minister Scajola and Ronchi&lt;/span&gt;, Mr. Zegna in behalf of Vice President fot International Affairs, and Confindustria in the person of President Marcegaglia, have reconfirmed their commitment directly&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; as well as coordination engine between the social parties that are favorable.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;On the other side&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;, the current problematic issue of "&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;100% Italian&lt;/span&gt;" is &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;waiting for conversion&lt;/span&gt; (which is highly unlikely in the current formulation) of &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;Decree 135/09&lt;/span&gt;, which however remains functional to prove the strong determination of the Italy system on it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;___________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;______________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"&gt;___________________________&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Ieri pomeriggio in Confindustria è stata data notizia  ufficiale (Viceministro D'Urso da Bruxelles) che su iniziativa del Trade  Commissioner Catherine Ashton il Comitato 133 ha ripreso i lavori per portare in  discussione l'argomento detto "Made in ...", sul quale l'Italia è già ampiamente  schierata (a favore).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Il Governo in persona dei Ministri Scajola e Ronchi e  Confindustria in persona della Presidente Marcegaglia e del vicepresidente per  gli affari internazionali Zegna hanno riconfermato il proprio impegno sul tema  sia diretto &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bouge.ca/img/law-school.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 166px; height: 179px;" src="http://www.bouge.ca/img/law-school.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;che come motore del coordinamento tra le -favorevoli- parti  sociali.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;In parallelo, attualmente la problematica disciplina del "100%  Italiano" è in attesa di conversione (del tutto improbabile nella attuale  formulazione) del decreto 135/09, che però resta funzionale a provare l'estrema  determinazione del sistema Italia sul tema.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-8865359389486007988?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/8865359389486007988/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=8865359389486007988' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/8865359389486007988'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/8865359389486007988'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/10/news-on-made-in.html' title='News on Made in...'/><author><name>Blogmaster</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08930373460758131951</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-3907721182643696201</id><published>2009-10-13T18:10:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-15T15:33:30.018+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marchi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Consiglio Nazionale Anticontraffazione'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lorenzo Litta'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='UIBM'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Alto Commissario'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Contraffazione'/><title type='text'>E l'Italia, l'Italia... e l'Italia l'è bela, l'è bela...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Lorenzo Litta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mi sembra che la musica che suonava questa mattina al Ministero per lo Sviluppo Economico fosse proprio questa. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;Siamo tutti &lt;/span&gt;(quasi tutti: avvocati, consulenti, magistrati, operatori, agenti...) &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;orgogliosi del Sistema Italia in Proprietà Industriale&lt;/span&gt;. Il nostro &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;Codice è all'avanguardia&lt;/span&gt;, gli strumenti ci sono, lo abbiamo fatto per primi, ne abbiamo fatti di più...tante piccole interessanti riflessioni.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;In&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt; realtà&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt; le parole erano diverse rispetto alla musica&lt;/span&gt;, soprattutto l'incontro aveva tutt'altra finalità, quella di essere un &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;Seminario rivolto a Piccole e Medie Imprese&lt;/span&gt; (il &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;98,7% delle aziende del BelPaese&lt;/span&gt;) &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;"con l'obiettivo di fornire loro utili informazioni sul sistema dei diritti di Proprietà Industriale e sulle azioni da intraprendere per tutelare i propri diritti di brevetto, marchio o disegno industriale"&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Gli s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://files.myopera.com/magalhaes2006/blog/csc-italians.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 181px; height: 231px;" src="http://files.myopera.com/magalhaes2006/blog/csc-italians.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;peaker ci hanno messo del loro, in senso positivo, offrendo una &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"&gt;panoramica ancora più interessante dell'attuale contesto della Proprietà Industriale&lt;/span&gt; e del considerevole numero di iniziative in corso, di cui cito velocemente ed in modo disordinato quelle che più mi hanno colpito: creazione di un &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;Fondo Nazionale per l'Innovazione&lt;/span&gt; (60 milioni di Euro stanziati per fare credito all'Innovazione qualificata) e &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;di una &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;Piattaforma per la Valutazione Economica dei Brevetti&lt;/span&gt;, gli &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;IPR Desk presso le sedi ICE&lt;/span&gt; nei Paesi in via di sviluppo, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"&gt;Callcenter &lt;/span&gt;sulla contraffazione, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;imminente introduzione della procedura semplificata per i casi doganali&lt;/span&gt; (finalmente!!!), nuovo &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Consiglio Nazionale Anticontraffazione&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;L'ho lasciato per ultimo, forse perchè lo ritengo il più importante, forse perchè sono state usate dall'&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;Avvocato Gulino&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 153, 153);"&gt;Direttore della Direzione Generale per la Lotta alla Contraffazione - Ufficio Italiano Brevetti e Marchi&lt;/span&gt;) delle parole molto belle e poco usate in Italia: &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;condivisione, interministeriale, confronto&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Ecco: &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;se davvero  il nuovo Consiglio Nazionale Anticontraffazione riuscirà a riunire, comprendere e soddisfare le esigenze di tutte le categorie&lt;/span&gt;, seguendo magari un modello simile a quello del "Ta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;volo delle Categorie" dell'&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Alto Commissario &lt;a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/giovanni-kessler/a/38b/96b"&gt;Giovanni Kessler&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, a mio avviso il grande assente della giornata e a cui, avrei fatto cenno, visto che molte delle iniziative in corso sono frutto anche del lavoro suo e della &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Dottoressa &lt;a href="http://www.ficpi.org/library/08FlorenceForum/CV-Agro.pdf"&gt;Ludovica Agrò&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 255);"&gt;ci sarà da divertirsi! &lt;/span&gt;Avremo davvero un modello efficiente di sistema e potremmo davvero considerarci un &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;Paese di Serie A nella Lotta alla Contraffazione&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Vorrei fare un complimento molto sincero a chi è intervenuto oggi, e vorrei citarli uno per uno: all'Avvocato Gulino, alla &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 102, 204);"&gt;Dottoressa Flajban&lt;/span&gt;, che ha parlato di quegli IPR Desk che mi hanno "svezzato" con l'IP, alla &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"&gt;Dottoressa Morel Chevillet&lt;/span&gt; di&lt;a href="http://www.bulgari.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"&gt; Bulgari&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, alla&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt; Dottoressa Rotunno&lt;/span&gt; di Innovhub (e se davvero si creassero strutture simili presso ogni CCIAA ?), al&lt;a href="http://www.agenziadogane.it/"&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Dottor Montemagno&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, alla &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"&gt;Dottoressa Muscolo&lt;/span&gt;, al &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 204);"&gt;Colonnello Fanti&lt;/span&gt;, al &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Dottor Soldini&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Dimentico qualcuno? Si, certamente l'&lt;a href="http://www.jacobacci.com/who/abboard.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;Avvocato Demichelis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a cui, con tutto il rispetto per gli altri, va un plauso particolare. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;Ha ragione caro Avvocato&lt;/span&gt;, il problema è quello della scelta dello strumento da azionare e soprattutto del dove si aziona quello strumento. E' vero anche che quella della contraffazione è una industria che ha bisogno di consumatori per essere alimentata e andare avanti.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;Tutto giusto, tutto molto bello&lt;/span&gt;. O forse dimentico qualcosa? Forse che tutto il "pubblico" era composto da operatori del settore, che hanno quotidianamente a che fare con questi problemi?&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 204, 204);"&gt; Forse che seminari di questo tipo dovrebbero essere diretti alle imprese?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ussu.co.uk/files/minisites/2034/italy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 299px; height: 171px;" src="http://ussu.co.uk/files/minisites/2034/italy.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Siamo i migliori in IP? Forse. I nostri operatori (Guardia di Finanza, Dogane) sono i migliori? E' probabile. E allora viva l'intervento del rappresentante delle piccole imprese che chiede la diffusione dell'IP all'interno delle aziende. Viva i fondi gratuiti, viva lo sportello di consulenza gratuita all'interno del Ministero&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Viva l'Italia dell'IP.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" &gt;La novità più succulenta è però rappresentata dal fatto che &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;" class="729502308-26112007"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;per primo il Governo Italiano abbia  concentrato in un manager pubblico l'Ufficio Centrale Brevetti e Marchi e  l'Ufficio Anticontraffazione&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Mi sorge solo un dubbio: ma le società? le PMI? Quel 98,7% di imprese? Dov'è quell'Italia? E' solo un dettaglio che non ci sia? A me la cosa spaventa un pò... e a voi?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-3907721182643696201?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/3907721182643696201/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=3907721182643696201' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/3907721182643696201'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/3907721182643696201'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/10/e-litalia-litalia-e-litalia-le-bela-le.html' title='E l&apos;Italia, l&apos;Italia... e l&apos;Italia l&apos;è bela, l&apos;è bela...'/><author><name>Blogmaster</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08930373460758131951</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-5247368610419642607</id><published>2009-10-12T21:56:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-14T09:00:03.543+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Valentino Rossi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='italian style'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trademark'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lorenzo Litta'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fair use'/><title type='text'>Valentino Rossi and spaghetti with truffle, the new winning recipe</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Lorenzo Litta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span class="testoArticoloG"&gt;Valentino Rossi loves to fight and loves to win. Sometimes he runs too fast. Maybe this is the reason why the Law Firm, which is assisting the MotoGP World Champion in the enforcement of  its IPRs, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;sent a cease and desist letter to the organization committee&lt;/span&gt; of the &lt;a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" linkindex="23" target="_blank" href="http://www.comune.santangeloinvado.pu.it/index.php?id=7846"&gt;Fiera del Tartufo&lt;/a&gt; (Truffle Fair) of Sant'Angelo in Vado, a small town close to Pesaro. According to Valentino Rossi's lawyers, &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;the Fair has to stop using the number 46&lt;/span&gt; - the number used by Valentino Rossi - notwithstanding &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;this year's Truffle Fair is the 46th edition&lt;/span&gt; organized in Sant'Angelo in Vado.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span class="testoArticoloG"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span class="testoArticoloG"&gt; It is clear that the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"&gt;yello&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span class="testoArticoloG"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"&gt;w logo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"&gt;used to promote the Fair&lt;/span&gt; is considered by Dr. R&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Ue3rHDC0Kc/StS-JCZ4OoI/AAAAAAAAARQ/KV4bfX3RbJg/s1600-h/image002.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 288px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Ue3rHDC0Kc/StS-JCZ4OoI/AAAAAAAAARQ/KV4bfX3RbJg/s320/image002.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392143716342839938" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span class="testoArticoloG"&gt;ossi &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 204);"&gt;too similar to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span class="testoArticoloG"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 204);"&gt;his registered mark&lt;/span&gt;, so that he asked the town to change the edition of the Fair. Of course for &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"&gt;users that are not familiar with Intellectual Property&lt;/span&gt;, as the Major of the town is, this is an absurd request. In fact he replied that probably they should call this year's edition as &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;the 45th plus one or the 47th minus one&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span class="testoArticoloG"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;The Major, who is probably also a fan of Rossi&lt;/span&gt;, added that he believes that Valentino was not aware of this case, in fact he allegedly &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;reached an agreement with the father of Valentino&lt;/span&gt;, Graziano Rossi, but the la&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span class="testoArticoloG"&gt;wyers informed him that the father's opinion was not important, since he can't decide on trademark issues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Furthermore &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;the Major said that he will continue using the logo until the 1st of November and notwithstanding this fact, he believes that Rossi will continue winning&lt;/span&gt;. It's not the first time that the famous c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span class="testoArticoloG"&gt;hampion is involved in strange cases with Law. Last time concerned a misunderstanding on taxes to be paid &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span class="testoArticoloG"&gt;between UK and Italy. Maybe this time he had even a worse advertisement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Ue3rHDC0Kc/StS-BqxrjGI/AAAAAAAAARI/4167g1yXUwY/s1600-h/image001.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 168px; height: 168px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Ue3rHDC0Kc/StS-BqxrjGI/AAAAAAAAARI/4167g1yXUwY/s320/image001.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392143589741136994" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span class="testoArticoloG"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;I'm pretty sure that anyone wil go to the Fair because of the number 46&lt;/span&gt;! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span class="testoArticoloG"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;this case is useful to show how in Italy there is confusion on fair use of a trademark&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would say that &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"&gt;Valentino lost an opportunity to be even more loved by his fans&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 153, 153);"&gt;I would suggest him to win the next race,  advertising the small town of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span class="testoArticoloG"&gt;Sant'Angelo in Vado on his suit, and to go to the Fair and have a nice plate of Spaghetti with Truffle!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span class="testoArticoloG"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span class="testoArticoloG"&gt; 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font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Fabio Angelini&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;An interesting (and practical) case of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;how fugitive, elusive make it undefinable, is the concept of “individual character” in Community design law*&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US" &gt;The “&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Turn On&lt;/span&gt;” &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;lamp below&lt;/span&gt; is the result of &lt;a href="http://www.lana-savettiere.com/design/48-turn-on-lana-design-lampada-lighting-on-off-rotante.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;Italian architects Lana Savettiere (on the left)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;" &gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Ue3rHDC0Kc/StSWx23YnEI/AAAAAAAAARA/4840P7JZFYk/s1600-h/image001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 444px; height: 146px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Ue3rHDC0Kc/StSWx23YnEI/AAAAAAAAARA/4840P7JZFYk/s200/image001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392100437154896962" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US" &gt;Cute, isn’t it ? However, it is &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;strangely similar to Apple’s QuickTime logo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US" &gt;(on the right) as anyone who is sufficiently knowledgeable of computers will have certainly thought when he/she first saw the lamp in question..&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-size:85%;"&gt;I’m curious, though, about what would happen in the following scenario.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div face="trebuchet ms" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;Imagine the design of the lamp were applied for as a Community Design&lt;/span&gt; –CD- (and maybe it is, I did not bother searching because I’m more interested in the intellectual problem). Of course &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;it would get registered&lt;/span&gt; (no substantive examination, of course). &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Now, a third party decided to manufacture and sell another similar lamp. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"&gt;Could our CD’s holder sue and prevail or would the third party have a valid defense by saying that the CD lacks “individual character” because the design at issue (not the lamp…) is basically a knock off of the Quicktime logo?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The CD Regulation in fact says that  “a Community design should not be upheld unless the design is new and unless it also possesses an individual character in comparison with other designs” (19&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; whereas) and art. 6 embodies the principle, so that  “&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;a design shall be considered to have individual character if the overall impression it produces on the informed user differs from the overall impression produced on such a user by any design which has been made available to the public&lt;/span&gt;”. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-size:85%;"&gt;I will not enter the who-the-informed-user-is argument although it may have a bearing. About it another time. The  issue here is the degree of horizontal disclosure (as opposed to vertical, which, in my mind, is the succession in time of designs in a particular field –even though it’s far by certain that say a design of a Greek tunic might not have individual character today…), which is how to assess the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;prior existence of a similar /identical design but in a totally unrelated field or even in one of the many faceted&lt;/span&gt;, ever surprising and ever fascinating designs which nature so abundantly and generously offers to us, that may destroy the individual character of a design. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Apparently the answer should be found in art. 7, which says that a design shall be deemed to have been made available to the public if it has been published following registration or otherwise, or exhibited, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;used in trade or otherwise disclosed&lt;/span&gt;, except where these events could not reasonably have become known in the normal course of business to the circles specialised in the sector concerned, operating within the Community”.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The key words to which a CD holder defending from an invalidity action would make recourse are “&lt;i style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 153, 153);"&gt;except where these events could not reasonably have become known in the normal course of business to the circles specialised in the sector concerned, operating within the Community&lt;/i&gt;”.  But what is the sector concerned? That of lamps or that of computer geeks? The question is deceptively simple and the readily “rational” answer falls short of its legal consequences. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Indeed, if the sector concerned is that of lamps, why is that a CD affords protection to the owner thereof irrespective of the good to which the design is applied? &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;A design which protect lamps, protects as well as patterns for a new line of upholstery&lt;/span&gt; (geeks being geeks and sometimes nerds, who may discard such a possibility?) &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;and graphical signs which may serve as trademarks&lt;/span&gt;. So, can the reverse happen? If it can (and yes IT can) would the sector concerned then also encompass lamps?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-size:85%;"&gt;I think it does, and so in my view, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;the rationale of protection defines the horizontal disclosure which, honestly suits me fine&lt;/span&gt;. A robust re-definition and restriction of IP rights is seriously needed. The endless multiplication in time, size and scope of IP rights is no longer a stimulus or incentive to innovation, but rather restraint of trade, a dangerous (relatively free and inexpensive) pass to monopolistic instincts and a recipe to economical regress.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;But that’s my view. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;    &lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;*Thanks to fellow “geeks” of Wired Gadgelab (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/10/rolling-lamp-looks-like-quicktime-logo/"&gt;http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/10/rolling-lamp-looks-like-quicktime-logo/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;) for having discovered this rather funny “coincidence”  &lt;/span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:10;"  lang="EN-US" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-979970438652308822?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/979970438652308822/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=979970438652308822' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/979970438652308822'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/979970438652308822'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/10/unbearable-undefinability-of-designs.html' title='The unbearable undefinability of designs&apos; individual character'/><author><name>Blogmaster</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08930373460758131951</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Ue3rHDC0Kc/StSWx23YnEI/AAAAAAAAARA/4840P7JZFYk/s72-c/image001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-1701333032148553500</id><published>2009-10-09T10:13:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-09T10:42:16.857+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Ancora sui pezzi da ricambio...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;S&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;tefano Sandri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;La&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cassazione, n. 17734 del 7 luglio 2009&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;torna ancora una volta sul&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/Ss72upJBI0I/AAAAAAAAAO0/VGu8RF3tnsA/s1600-h/pict_20090401PHT53088.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 137px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/Ss72upJBI0I/AAAAAAAAAO0/VGu8RF3tnsA/s200/pict_20090401PHT53088.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390517085187154754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt; tormentone dei &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;pezzi di ricambio&lt;/span&gt; e la &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;legittimità delle diciture che li accompagnano&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Si tratta non tanto di un ribaltone, ma di un chiarimento nella situazione in cui &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;il ri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;cambista usa l’espressione “tipo” non in relazione alla destinazione di un particolare autoveico&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;lo, ma ad prodotto di un altro ricambista&lt;/span&gt;. Sappiamo &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;in base alla normativa vigente, a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;rmonizz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;ata a quella comunitaria&lt;/span&gt;, che &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;viene escluso che il diritto del titolare&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt; del marchio possa vietare a terzi l’uso, nell’attività economica, del proprio marchio, sulla scorta della sussistenza di tre criteri&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ol style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;necessità dell’uso del marchio altrui per indicare la destinazione di un prodotto o servizio;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;rispetto del principio della correttezza professionale;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;utilizzo del marchio in funzione descrittiva, e non distintiva.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Secondo &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;la Suprema Corte&lt;/span&gt;, avuto riguardo al caso di specie e richiamato il precedente della sua sentenza m. 8442/200, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;il fabbricante dei pezzi di ricambio può usare il marchio allo scopo di indicare la destinazione del suo prodotto, ma le modalità dell’esercizio di tale diritto non devono produrre confusione e ambiguità sulla provenienza del prodotto stesso, sopratutto se la funzionalità tecnica del pezzo non permetterà di distinguerlo da quello prodotto dal fabbricante dell’autovettura.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-1701333032148553500?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/1701333032148553500/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=1701333032148553500' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/1701333032148553500'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/1701333032148553500'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/10/ancora-sui-pezzi-da-ricambio.html' title='Ancora sui pezzi da ricambio...'/><author><name>Eleonora Fia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10953777337908380457</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/Ss72upJBI0I/AAAAAAAAAO0/VGu8RF3tnsA/s72-c/pict_20090401PHT53088.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-846718248302035407</id><published>2009-10-06T14:55:00.014+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-06T15:57:49.137+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Pago... the ECJ gave birth to a mouse</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=";font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:10;"  lang="EN-US" &gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Fabio Angelini&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;" class="ecxecxMsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:85%;"  lang="EN-US" &gt;The ECJ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:85%;"  lang="EN-US" &gt;has today&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:85%;"  lang="EN-US" &gt; issued the long awaited decision in Pago (case C‑301/07). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:85%;"  lang="EN-US" &gt;As y&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:85%;"  lang="EN-US" &gt;ou &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:85%;"  lang="EN-US" &gt;all &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:85%;"  lang="EN-US" &gt;recall the case pivoted around the “quantitative” side of the renown to be enjoyed in the EU by a mark in order to be protected against dilution. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;" class="ecxecxMsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:85%;"  lang="EN-US" &gt;Regrettably, rather than engaging in a sweeping review of current law/practice –as I had hoped- &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;the decision is  particularly disappointing. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;" class="ecxecxMsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:85%;"  lang="EN-US" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;The ECJ says that reputation must exist in a substantial part of the Community&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;(“ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Territorially, the condition as to reputation must be considered to be fulfilled when the Community trade mark has a reputation in a substantial part of the territory of the Community (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;at §27)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt; which is a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:85%;"  lang="EN-US" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;step ahead.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;" class="ecxecxMsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:85%;"  lang="EN-US" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;However, it does neither clarify the test to determine what is “substantial”&lt;/span&gt;  -see the puzzling statement “As the present case concerns a Community trade mark with a reputation throughout the territory of a Member State, namely Austria, the view may be taken, regard being had to the circumstances of the main proceedings, that the territorial requirement imposed by Article 9(1)(c) of the regulation is satisfied ” at § 29,( OK. But why?)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:85%;"  lang="EN-US" &gt;,  nor if th&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/SstGSy4uajI/AAAAAAAAAOk/-iol1CUsBJA/s1600-h/Pago-On-The-Rocks_Melone.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 170px; height: 190px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/SstGSy4uajI/AAAAAAAAAOk/-iol1CUsBJA/s320/Pago-On-The-Rocks_Melone.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389478667790215730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:85%;"  lang="EN-US" &gt;e holding would have been the same if instead of Austria the country at issue had been, say, Latvia or Malta. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="ecxecxMsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;The real issue was whether or not an equivalence could be drawn between the concepts &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt; “substantial part of the Community” and one Member State.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;It seems to me that after this decision the waters are still murky and one could argue one way or the other, …unless one  may take an intermediate position which is that from now on, Austria is the test. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Larger or equal to Austria, bingo! Smaller than Austria and you are out. But it does not seem really a good test.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 255);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-size:10;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   	&lt;meta equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;title&gt;&lt;/title&gt;&lt;meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 2.0  (Linux)"&gt;&lt;meta name="CREATED" content="20091006;15524500"&gt;&lt;meta name="CHANGED" content="16010101;0"&gt; 	 	 	 	 	&lt;style type="text/css"&gt; 	&lt;!-- 		@page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } 		P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } 	--&gt; 	&lt;/style&gt;   &lt;p align="justify" lang="en-US"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 255);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;In my view the ECJ lost a great chance to inject a little bit of reasonableness in the CTM system.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify" lang="en-US"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;When the CTM regulation was first drafted, the Soviet Union was still a threatening monolith and the EU was formed by 10 countries more or less of comparable size and more or less with comparable economies (differences existed, of course, but not of the scale of today’s Union, in which there are countries whose entire population would scarcely qualify for a neighborhood of London or Rome). &lt;b&gt;The European Union has changed but the law has not and the ECJ has not helped a bit…..&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify" lang="en-US"&gt;   	&lt;meta equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;title&gt;&lt;/title&gt;&lt;meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 2.0  (Linux)"&gt;&lt;meta name="CREATED" content="20091006;15524500"&gt;&lt;meta name="CHANGED" content="16010101;0"&gt; 	 	 	 	 	&lt;style type="text/css"&gt; 	&lt;!-- 		@page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } 		P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } 	--&gt; 	&lt;/style&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify" lang="en-US"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;What does this mean for owner of a renown rademark? Well, it helps a lot because by referring to Pago and by proving renown only in a country, say UK, in theory according to Pago one may obtain an injunction in Italy w/out the need to prove renown over there ( actually not even use!). &lt;/span&gt;Practically, one for instance may use this decision to concentrate all the resources (lots of ads, lots of consumer surveys and so forth) one has in one single country (but make it a large one…) to obtain a declaration by a national court of renown in that country and then use it as a hammer to nail all other countries.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;" class="ecxecxMsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:85%;"  lang="EN-US" &gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Of course then one needs to prove detriment or unfair advantage, but that’s another story&lt;/span&gt;… &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-846718248302035407?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/846718248302035407/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=846718248302035407' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/846718248302035407'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/846718248302035407'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/10/pago-ecj-gave-birth-to-mouse.html' title='Pago... the ECJ gave birth to a mouse'/><author><name>Eleonora Fia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10953777337908380457</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/SstGSy4uajI/AAAAAAAAAOk/-iol1CUsBJA/s72-c/Pago-On-The-Rocks_Melone.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-8381411326268594099</id><published>2009-10-04T11:07:00.015+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-05T20:41:10.354+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Entro l’anno il big bang dei TLDs</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"  &gt;&lt;span&gt;Alberto Bellan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Se ne parlava da un po', ma questa sembra la volta buona (o cattiva, a seconda dei punti di vista). Nel &lt;a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" href="http://par.icann.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;i&gt;meeting&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"&gt;&lt;u&gt; di ICANN&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;tenutosi a Parigi, alla fine del mese di giugno, gli oltre 1.500 delegati provenienti da 70 Paesi diversi hanno votato&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a href="http://par.icann.org/briefing-note"&gt;per quello&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; che nell’ambiente è già stato soprannominato il&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;“&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;domain name big bang&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;”&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Entro la fine di quest’anno sarà possibile registrare, oltre ai Secondary Level Domains (SLD), anche un numero potenzialmente infinito di TLDs (Top Level Domains)&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold; text-align: left;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Se per un indirizzo tipo “parolecomplicate.it” sino ad og&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;gi &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;ra &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;ossibile registrare solo “&lt;i&gt;parolecomplicate&lt;/i&gt;” (il SLD), da gennaio dell’anno pros&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;simo sarà po&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;ssibi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;le i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;nventarsi anche un TLD, la &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;parte dopo il punto: potrei registrare, ad esempio, paro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;lecomplicate.milano&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; che&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; non è niente male&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;. Oppure parolecomplicate.louisvuitton, o parolecomplicate.voglioand&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;areinvacanza.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/Ssh4jq8WNqI/AAAAAAAAAOU/kLvsJLQS-vY/s1600-h/blog.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/Ssh4jq8WNqI/AAAAAAAAAOU/kLvsJLQS-vY/s200/blog.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388689508366956194" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;La liberalizzazione è ufficialmente mossa dall’intento di incrementare le possibilità di sviluppo della rete in direzioni sempre nuove e diverse&lt;/span&gt;, anche se &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;molti hanno osservato come al portafoglio di ICANN (non-profit organization, per altro) la registrazione di TLDs male di certo non farà&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A prescindere dai motivi,  per chi si occupa di tutela dell’IP in internet &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;si apre un mondo nuovo&lt;/span&gt;, il mondo &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;dopo il punto&lt;/span&gt;. Con la riforma &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;le possibilità di cybersquatting,&lt;/span&gt; che fino ad ora avevano riguardato solo i SLD, &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;raddoppiano&lt;/span&gt;: un marchio potrebbe essere illegalmente inserito anche nell’ultima parte del nome a dominio.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Per tentare di arginare il &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;fenomeno&lt;/span&gt;, di per sé &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;aumentato del 7% &lt;/span&gt;(per quanto riguarda i gTLD) nell’ultimo anno, &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;ICANN ha affidato ad un gruppo di 18 esperti in materia di tutela dei marchi in rete (IRT) la redazione di un&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/irt-final-report-trademark-protection-29may09-en.pdf"&gt;rapporto strategico&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt; contenente &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;“&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;a tapestry &lt;/span&gt;of globally-effective solutions&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;”&lt;/span&gt; per la disciplina riguardante la registrazione dei nuovi TLDs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Il gruppo di lavoro ha proposto &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;diverse soluzioni innovative, tra cui &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;l’istituzione di un nuovo ente&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;, la “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;IP Clearinghouse&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;”&lt;/span&gt;,&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt; incaricato di ricevere, controllare e validare le richieste di costituzione di nuovi TLDs alla luce della loro conformità ai diritti IP preesistenti e&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;la previsione di un procedimento ultraveloce per la sospensione immediata di un sito in palese contraffazione di un marchio&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="justify"&gt;  &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="justify"&gt;  &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-8381411326268594099?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/8381411326268594099/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=8381411326268594099' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/8381411326268594099'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/8381411326268594099'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/10/entro-lanno-il-big-bang-dei-tlds.html' title='Entro l’anno il big bang dei TLDs'/><author><name>Eleonora Fia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10953777337908380457</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/Ssh4jq8WNqI/AAAAAAAAAOU/kLvsJLQS-vY/s72-c/blog.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-1017837003125005982</id><published>2009-09-25T17:37:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2009-09-25T18:05:13.245+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marchi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='confusione'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='limoncello'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='andrea cicogna'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Confondibilità'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='offshore'/><title type='text'>At Luxembourg there are no yachts men</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Stefano &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Sandri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 58.9pt; font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;At &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Luxembourg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; there is no&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;t &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; the sea. Cleary,  the judges of the  European court are not expected  to be experienced yacht&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;men.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;However, if you look at this image, do you have any doubt we are talking about &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.nauticexpo.it/fabbricante-barca/motor-yacht-offshore-19679.html"&gt;Motor yacht offshore &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 58.9pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Arial';"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img src="https://docs.google.com/File?id=dhcvg4dq_11dr4ffshc_b" alt="Image not found" width="254" border="0" height="143" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 58.9pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial';"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;CFI &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;, T-305 and 306/07, yet took 103 paragraphs  to conclude that &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial';"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;this mark was confusingly similar to this prior mark in respect of products of class 18 and 25. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 58.9pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://docs.google.com/File?id=dhcvg4dq_12ctrswggq_b" alt="Image not found" width="173" border="0" height="163" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 58.9pt; font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;This hesitation is due to the fact that CFI compared the marks in question merely on the visual and phonetic field.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt; The conceptual criteria was completely undermined, although the Court quoted the case law  (LIMONCELLO and MATRATZEN) whereby emerges that the dominance of an element in the frame of a complex trademark is stronger whenever the sign enjoys of a specific and clear conceptual meaning, as it has supported by my search carried out by&lt;/span&gt; &lt;i style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Overmoon&lt;/i&gt;.  Both the sign, in his case, unquestionably reminds to the idea (and in the case of the Community application to the image too) of a powerful  and fast motor yacht. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 0);"&gt;In this regard the fact that someone may relate the term “offshore” to something other than a nautical sport (paragraphs 78 to 85)  is,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;in my view&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 0);"&gt;totally irrelevant&lt;/span&gt;,  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;for it is out of the legal context under discussion.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 58.9pt; font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;By chances It is to be noted that lately the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation (No.18.218, dated 18 august 2009) has granted an undertaking of the exclusive right to use and protect its name and image of a boat ( its logo) reproduced by an unauthorized competitor  on the surface of one of its sailing boat, by making an extension of the application of the rules on the right of image provided for in the Civil Code for individuals&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The loosing party was retained liable for damages on the perspective of an hypothetic  sponsorship agreement, expressly referred to by the Court , by way of analogy,  to  a trademark sponsorship agreement&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-1017837003125005982?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/1017837003125005982/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=1017837003125005982' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/1017837003125005982'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/1017837003125005982'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/09/at-luxembourg-there-are-no-yachts-men.html' title='At Luxembourg there are no yachts men'/><author><name>Andrea Cicogna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01753243577452394535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-9139472509185508177</id><published>2009-08-31T10:46:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2009-09-11T22:06:16.076+02:00</updated><title type='text'>The fighting Bunny</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Stefano &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Sandri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;The chocol&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;ate bunny represents a big business for&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;L&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;indt&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;. Since 2001 Lindt regis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;tered a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt; shape Community trademark &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt; a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/SqqbeKGaUkI/AAAAAAAAAN0/YZB3xRUUbY0/s1600-h/coniglio1.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 131px; height: 153px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/SqqbeKGaUkI/AAAAAAAAAN0/YZB3xRUUbY0/s320/coniglio1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380283647257104962" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;nd&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt; on its basis sued an Austrian firm, &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Franz Hauswi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;rth GmbH, for counterfeiti&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;ng&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;An easy cas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;, should you assess only the confusingly similarity &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;between the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;two marks&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;The &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;roblem rai&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;sed to the extent that &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;the defendant counterclaimed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt; the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt; nullity of the registration of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;Lindt on the ground of Article 51(1)(b), RMC . Purs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;uant this rule, a Community trade mark shall be declared invalid  where the applicant was &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;ting in ba&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;d faith when he file&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;d  the application for the trade mark.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;What&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;doe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt; it mean bad faith?&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; The counterfeiting proceedings were suspended and the question remitted to the&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;Court of justice&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(C 529/07, Chocoladefabriken Lindt &amp;amp; Sprüngli AG  v Franz Hauswirth GmbH)  who &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;said that national court must take into consideration all the relevant factors specific to the particular case, in particular the fact that the applicant knows or must know that &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;a &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;third party is using, in at least one Member&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/SqqQp_yeChI/AAAAAAAAANs/7pKgCNlS68o/s1600-h/coniglio2.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 136px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/SqqQp_yeChI/AAAAAAAAANs/7pKgCNlS68o/s320/coniglio2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380271756019632658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt; State, an identical or similar sign for an identical or similar product, the applicant’s intention to prevent that third party from continuing to use such a sign; and the degree of legal protection enjoyed by the third party’s sign and by the sign for which registration is sought&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;It seems that in the ECJ’ view all the three criteria must concur. The real question, however, is that there are so many other pertinent circumstances to taking care of (some of them are mentioned in the grounds of the judgement), that in practice the Court remit to the National judge the final evaluation, on a case by case basis, of when the bad faith of the applicant may occur.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;It’s true that “like a banker, bad faith is no doubt easier to recognise than to define”, although “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;I do not &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; suggest that bankers and bad faith have anything else in common”&lt;/span&gt;, as pointed out by the Advocate General Sharpston.&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Court, however, was invested for the first time on the subject issue and missed the chance to say something more than 'bad faith must be decided case by case'&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" lang="en-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-GB"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-9139472509185508177?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/9139472509185508177/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=9139472509185508177' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/9139472509185508177'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/9139472509185508177'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/08/fighting-bunny.html' title='The fighting Bunny'/><author><name>Eleonora Fia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10953777337908380457</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/SqqbeKGaUkI/AAAAAAAAAN0/YZB3xRUUbY0/s72-c/coniglio1.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-199468587796258131</id><published>2009-08-29T20:33:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2009-09-11T20:52:27.085+02:00</updated><title type='text'>La sesta edizione del manuale...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Stefano  Sandri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;	&lt;meta equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;title&gt;BLOG&lt;/title&gt;&lt;meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 2.0  (Linux)"&gt;&lt;meta name="AUTHOR" content="*****"&gt;&lt;meta name="CREATED" content="20090729;16030000"&gt;&lt;meta name="CHANGEDBY" content="*****"&gt;&lt;meta name="CHANGED" content="20090729;16180000"&gt; 	 	 	 	 	 	 	&lt;style type="text/css"&gt; 	&lt;!-- 		@page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } 		P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } 	- 	&lt;/style&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-left: -0.03cm; margin-right: 0.06cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Credo che tutti coloro che si occupano di &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Proprietà Industriale&lt;/span&gt; sanno di cosa sto parlando:  il &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0); 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	 	 	 	 	 	 	&lt;style type="text/css"&gt; 	&lt;!-- 		@page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } 		P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } 	--&gt;&lt;/style&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-199468587796258131?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/199468587796258131/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=199468587796258131' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/199468587796258131'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/199468587796258131'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/08/la-sesta-edizione-del-manuale.html' title='La sesta edizione del manuale...'/><author><name>Eleonora Fia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10953777337908380457</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-2880518795930981489</id><published>2009-07-23T19:09:00.014+02:00</published><updated>2009-07-24T16:26:44.085+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Fighting with the BOAS of Alicante</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;Stefano Sandri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span&gt;It is settled case law that the statement of reasons of  BOAs’ decisions need be given for all goods and services applied for. Accordingly&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;the BOAs must determine specifically that none of the grounds for refusal listed by Article 7(1) CTMR applies to the mark in question in relation to each of those goods or services claimed, and they may reach different conclusion depending upon the goods or services considered&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span&gt;In the case ULTIMATE FIGHTING, 2 April 2009,  the 1st Board failed to do so and the CFI, alth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span&gt;ough th&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span&gt;e applicant did not invoked this failure, annulled of its own motion  and in this respect the contested decision. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/SmnDipBCRfI/AAAAAAAAANU/9fwzap6DXFw/s1600-h/foto+blog.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 202px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/SmnDipBCRfI/AAAAAAAAANU/9fwzap6DXFw/s320/foto+blog.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362031831254451698" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span&gt;It’s true that&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;the same grounds of refusal  are given for a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt; category or group of goods o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;r services and the BOARD can limit itself to using general reasoning&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt; for all the goods or services concerned&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span&gt;. Ho&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span&gt;wev&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span&gt;er this is of po&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span&gt;or assistance when, as in the subject case, &lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;the trademark applied for  covers more than &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;215 goods falling within four separate classes as well as at least 13 kinds of different services&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Terrific !.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span&gt;The plain application of the principles governing the statement of grounds may lead the BOARDs  in some cases to be overloaded by a  very hard work. Moreover,&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;assess which goods or se&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;rvices are t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;o be considered homogenous (complementary) is an uneasy additional exercise that must be reviewed by the CFI  pursuant its  control of legality of the appealed decision&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;                                                                                                     &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;     &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span&gt;Any idea as how to meet the productivity expectations of the Office and their clients?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;                                                                                       &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-2880518795930981489?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/2880518795930981489/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=2880518795930981489' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/2880518795930981489'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/2880518795930981489'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/07/fighting-with-boas-of-alicante.html' title='Fighting with the BOAS of Alicante'/><author><name>Eleonora Fia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10953777337908380457</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/SmnDipBCRfI/AAAAAAAAANU/9fwzap6DXFw/s72-c/foto+blog.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-3156109434521094534</id><published>2009-07-20T19:38:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2009-07-21T11:27:23.322+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='governo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marchi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='italian style'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uami'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lorenzo Litta'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Berlusconi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nizza'/><title type='text'>Il Governo alla Conquista... dell'ITALIA... uno scherzo poco CHEAP!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Lorenzo Litta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Curiosità dal meraviglioso mondo dell'IP, questa volta arrivano da Alicante e fanno davvero sorridere. Forse c'è davvero qualcosa di magico nel mondo del Marchio Comunitario. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Curiosando su &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;CTM-Online&lt;/span&gt;, capita anche di scoprire che la &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri - Struttura di Missione per il Rilancio dell'Immagine dell'Italia&lt;/span&gt;, abbia depositato i seguenti marchi:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;- &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;ITALIA&lt;/span&gt; (CTM n. 8385692);&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;- &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;MAGICA ITALIA&lt;/span&gt; (CTM n. 8403933);&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Ue3rHDC0Kc/SmSt8XYcXyI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/dqLfRWpJNiY/s1600-h/000064775688+%281%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 270px; height: 121px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Ue3rHDC0Kc/SmSt8XYcXyI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/dqLfRWpJNiY/s200/000064775688+%281%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360600709058027298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;...&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;e per chi non fosse familiare con la lingua di Dante&lt;/span&gt;...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;c'è anche la versione Inglese... giusto per non farsi mancare nulla (!!!):&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;- &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;ITALY&lt;/span&gt; (CTM n. 8385726);&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;- &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;MAGIC ITALY&lt;/span&gt; (CTM n. 8403909).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Capita anche di scoprire che tutti e 4 i marchi sono stati depositati in TUTTE E 45 LE CLASSI della attuale classificazione... forse se il nostro amico Jeremy non si fosse già appropriato della 46, si sarebbero presi anche quella...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 153, 51); font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;PER    QUESTA RISATA IL GOVERNO HA SPESO SOLO DI TASSE EURO &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;28.800&lt;/span&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-3156109434521094534?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/3156109434521094534/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=3156109434521094534' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/3156109434521094534'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/3156109434521094534'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/07/il-governo-alla-conquista-dellitalia.html' title='Il Governo alla Conquista... dell&apos;ITALIA... uno scherzo poco CHEAP!'/><author><name>Blogmaster</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08930373460758131951</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Ue3rHDC0Kc/SmSt8XYcXyI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/dqLfRWpJNiY/s72-c/000064775688+%281%29.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-2914211733127575696</id><published>2009-07-20T12:34:00.022+02:00</published><updated>2009-07-21T12:03:43.876+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Marchi radio-tv nazionali e locali</title><content type='html'>&lt;meta equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;title&gt;&lt;/title&gt;&lt;meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 2.4  (Win32)"&gt;&lt;style type="text/css"&gt; 	&lt;!-- 		@page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } 		P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm }&lt;/style&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;Eleonora Fia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Il divieto di utilizzo di un marchio radiotelevisivo locale che ne richia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;ma uno nazionale, anche se il primo è più risalente o addirittura registrato, è incostituzionale.&lt;/span&gt; La Consulta, con la &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;sentenza 206/2009&lt;/span&gt;, ha accolto il &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;ricorso del circuito locale «Radio Kiss Kiss Italia» contro la norma che, nel caso specifico, favoriva la rete nazionale «Radio Kiss Kiss Networ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;k»&lt;/span&gt;, e ha dichiarato &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;incompatibile con la Carta l'articolo 2, comma 2-bis, del decreto-legge 15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;del 1999 convertito dalla legge 78 del 1999&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold;"&gt;La legge contiene "Disposizioni urgenti per lo sviluppo equilibrato dell’emittenza televisiva e per evitare la costituzione o il mantenimento di posizioni dominanti nel settore radiotelevisivo”&lt;/span&gt; ed  opera creando un doppio binario, local&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;e e nazionale, per l'utilizzo dei marchi identificativi delle e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;mittenti, imponendo u&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;n&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt; sacrificio unidirezionale e retroattivo,  nei casi di sovrapposizione totale o parziale dei segni "aziendali, del marchio locale che deve cedere il passo a quello conosciuto su una scala territoriale più vasta trascurandosi del tutto l'eventuale preuso del marchio da parte dell'emittenza locale&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold;"&gt; In tutti i gradi di giudizio amministrativo, Radio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/SmRSRBx9fdI/AAAAAAAAAMU/-6_bqqg1gUw/s1600-h/brand.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/SmRSRBx9fdI/AAAAAAAAAMU/-6_bqqg1gUw/s320/brand.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360499908966972882" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold;"&gt; Kiss Kiss Italia, emittente radiofonica locale gestita da Pubblikappa che trasmette nel Lazio e in Campania in virtù della concessione per l'esercizio della radiodiffusione sonora rilasciata nel marzo del '94, si era vista superare dal network nazionale&lt;/span&gt;. L'Autorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni, con delibera n. 63/02/CONS del 27 febbraio 2002 ha diffidato, ai sensi dell'art. 2, comma 2-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;bis&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;, del citato d. l. n. 15 del 1999, la medesima società a&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt; c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;essare l'utilizzo della denominazione “Radio Kiss Kiss Italia”, essendo questa denomina&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;zione idonea a richiamare in parte quella dell'emittente nazionale “Radio Kiss Kiss Network”&lt;/span&gt;, anch'essa licenziataria, da Giosa Service s.p.a, del marchio “Kiss Kiss”. La Pubblikappa s.n.c. ha impugnato la delibera dinanzi al Tribunale amministrativo regionale per il Lazio chiedendone la sospensione, che tuttavia è stata rifiutata.  Avverso la relativa ordinanza di rigetto, la ricorrente ha proposto appello, ed il Consiglio di Stato, in accoglimento delle eccezioni di quest'ultima, ha sollevato questione di legittimità cost&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;ituzionale dell'art. 2, comma 2-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;bis&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;, del richiamato d. l. n. 15 del 1999. &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;In sostanz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/SmRTODI1l-I/AAAAAAAAAMk/gShPVX-JQ5s/s1600-h/kiss.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 172px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/SmRTODI1l-I/AAAAAAAAAMk/gShPVX-JQ5s/s200/kiss.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360500957303379938" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;a sia l'Agcom sia il Tar del Lazio hanno diffidato l'emittente regionale dall'utilizzo del marchio del &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;network più esteso, anch'esso sostenuto da regolare licenza seppur  successiva.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;La preferenza indiscriminata accordata alle emittenti nazionali si presenta come un privilegio lesivo del principio di uguaglianza, in quanto, da un lato, opera a danno di soggetti normalmente più deboli e, dall'altro, sovverte lo statuto dell'emittenza radiotelevisiva, che invece riconosce alle emittenti locali un pieno titolo costituzionale per l'esercizio della loro attività.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Il problema è tutt'altro che secondario perché, di&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt; fatto, per il solo fatto di essere un'emittente locale e non nazionale, e pur avendo sempre usato il marchio, si rischiava di essere espropriati della propria identità mediatica. &lt;/span&gt;Del resto era &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;stato lo stesso &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Consiglio di Stato, con un 'ordinanza del marzo 2008 &lt;/span&gt;a &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;sollevare la questione di costituzionalità e ad osservare che la disciplina sembrava incidere, invero, in termini oggettivamente rilevanti e irrimediabili sulle posizioni delle emittenti locali che facevano legittimo uso del marchio, costrette a dismettere tale determinante segno identificativo a causa soltanto della loro specificità territoriale, anche e soprattutto qualora esse abbiano fatto uso del marchio in questione con priorità rispetto alle emittenti nazionali che abbiano successivamente utilizzato il marchio medesimo&lt;/span&gt;. La &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold;"&gt;suprema magistratura&lt;/span&gt; amministrativa ha anche avvertito che &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;la tutela del marchio d’impresa risponde ad un’esigenza insopprimibile per lo svolgimento dell’iniziativa economica  posto che il diritto all'uso esclusivo del segno identificativo concorre a delineare la concreta capacità concorrenziale dell'impresa, oltre che la sua consistenza patrimoniale, traducendosi in una importante componente dell'avviamento commerciale e che tanto più questo discorso vale nel settore radiofonico, costituendo l’unico efficace strumento attraverso cui la platea degli ascoltatori è posta in grado di identificare le numerose emittenti che operano sul mercato delle radiofrequenze.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Infine, &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;la norma impugnata lederebbe il valore della concorrenza, riconducibile all'iniziativa economica privata, travolgendo il principio del &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;prior in tempore potior in iure&lt;/span&gt; riconosciuto sia dalla Corte costituzionale sia dal Codice della proprietà industriale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-2914211733127575696?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/2914211733127575696/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=2914211733127575696' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/2914211733127575696'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/2914211733127575696'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/07/marchi-radio-tv-nazionali-e-locali.html' title='Marchi radio-tv nazionali e locali'/><author><name>Eleonora Fia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10953777337908380457</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/SmRSRBx9fdI/AAAAAAAAAMU/-6_bqqg1gUw/s72-c/brand.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-348204659090446834</id><published>2009-07-14T12:17:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-07-14T12:32:02.973+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trademarks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lorenzo Litta'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='UKPTO'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='series'/><title type='text'>Isolated Series in the Isolated Kingdom</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Lorenzo Litta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="bodytext"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;When someone says "isolated", it is easy to think abouth UK. For trademarks quite often happens the same. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;UK trade mark Law allows applicants to cover more than one variant of trade mark in a singe application&lt;/span&gt;: it means that is possible to have "trademark series" &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;without any extra filing fees&lt;/span&gt;. This is something generally acceptable if the marks do not vary substantially and is &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;often used to cover colour and black &amp;amp; white versions&lt;/span&gt; of the same mark.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="bodytext"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Recently, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;UK Intellectual Property Office has considered abolishing series applications&lt;/span&gt;, since are an unusual feature in trade mark world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.populicio.us/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/uk-flag.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 231px; height: 394px;" src="http://www.populicio.us/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/uk-flag.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="bodytext"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;However and not so unexpectedly, UKIPO has just announced th&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;at &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;it will keep series applications&lt;/span&gt;, but restricting their application. Let's see most important changes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;li class="bodytext"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;strong style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;A maximum of six marks permitted in a series application&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="bodytext"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;strong style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;Tactical use of series applications will be discouraged&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="bodytext"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;If any mark is not truly part of a series, it will be deleted from the application&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="bodytext"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;It will no longer be possible to "divide" a series application into one or more new applications, preserving the filing date&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="bodytext"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Marks not forming part of the series will have to be deleted from the application&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;" class="bodytext"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;According to our British friends, series applications will remain a useful device but "they must be used with care". In fact, claiming marks form a series is a tacit admission that the marks do not differ in their distinctive elements.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;New rules are &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"&gt;expected to come into force on 1 October 2009&lt;/span&gt;...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;" class="bodytext"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;" class="bodytext"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-348204659090446834?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/348204659090446834/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=348204659090446834' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/348204659090446834'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/348204659090446834'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/07/isolated-series-in-isolated-kingdom.html' title='Isolated Series in the Isolated Kingdom'/><author><name>Blogmaster</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08930373460758131951</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-8043031732808198161</id><published>2009-07-13T16:39:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2009-07-14T12:32:42.918+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='criminal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='enforcement'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trademarks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='made in italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anticounterfeiting'/><title type='text'>New Criminal Provisions for fighting (?) counterfeiting and piracy</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Lorenzo Litta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;A very recent bill, "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;DISEGNO DI LEGGE 1195-B&lt;/span&gt;", approved by Parliament only last Thursday -July 9, 2009- for the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;development and internationalization of Italian companies&lt;/span&gt;, will introduce new instruments and special terms to help the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;growth of economics and reportedly should deeply modify Criminal Enforcement&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;In particular the bill will:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 255);"&gt;- create manufacturing districts and networking events;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 255);"&gt; - favour the reindustrialization;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 255);"&gt; - reorganize the tax incentive for companies;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 255);"&gt; - help the international market and the internationalization of Italian companies;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 255);"&gt; - promote interventions to develope new technologies and to keep safe the environment;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 255);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 255);"&gt;- strenghten the enforcement of intellectual property;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 255);"&gt; - increase investments for low energy consumption.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;The development of Italian companies will be facilitated by a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;reorganization of the government system&lt;/span&gt; dedicated to.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Going straight to our area of main interest, there are &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;new laws concerning the criminal enforcement&lt;/span&gt; of Intellectual Property Rights against counterfeiting and piracy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;In particular the bill will &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 204, 204);"&gt;increase punishments agai&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://fashionlawyerblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/real_versus_fake_louis_vuitton_bags.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 329px; height: 180px;" src="http://fashionlawyerblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/real_versus_fake_louis_vuitton_bags.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 204, 204);"&gt;nst counterfeiters&lt;/span&gt;, adding new provisions which complete existing rules (Art. 473 is amended, Art. 474 is amended, Artt. 474 bis and 474 ter are added, Art 517 is amended, Artt. 517 ter and 517 quater are added...).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Furthermore &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;the threshold of criminal prosecution of trademark infringers will be "guilt" instead of "fraud"&lt;/span&gt;. This means that similar crimes shall not need the intention to infringe &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt; of the defendant&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;. In fact, it will be punished whoever "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 102, 204); font-style: italic;"&gt;potendo conoscere&lt;/span&gt;" (having the possibility to be aware) infringe &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;intellectual or industrial property rights. This new criteria will be valid for all basic criminal provisions enforced in IPR infringements (artt. 473, 474, 517).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;However &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"&gt;it is not clear whether such provision could be extended also to IPR applications&lt;/span&gt; (as it happens with the Law in force) or it is limited to registrations (which would be highly dangerous for IPRs owners, since in Italy IPRs are usually registered 4 years after application).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;The bill text will &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"&gt;modify also the Intellectual Property Code of 2005 &lt;/span&gt;and will introduce the&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt; National Anticounterfeiting Council&lt;/span&gt;, which will be responsible of coordinating all activities of regional administrations to provide proficiency and balance to IPRs Law enforcement (with similar powers of the removed High &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Commissioner for Anticounterfeiting and Piracy).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;The &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;National Anticounterfeiting Council &lt;/span&gt;shall also be empowered to:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;- carry out periodical checks of IPRs' infringements;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; - study new anticounterfeiting remedies;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; - promote and assist Italian companies for registering and being aware of national, foreign and Community IP regulations;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; - verify the general quality of exported/imported foods;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; - plan and develope every year an anticounterfeiting strategy, proving the reached results;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; - coordinate its activity with similar Offices in other Countries&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Now the Italian Parliament &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;approved conversion into Law of the bill&lt;/span&gt;. 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text-align: left; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Credo che potrei facilmente riconoscere tra mille la barretta di cioccolato Bounty&lt;/span&gt;, ma forse la mia percezione è condizionata dal fatto che da ragazzo ne mangiavo un bel po’ (e anche adesso ogni tanto mi tolgo lo sfizio…). Purtroppo, sembra che nell’Unione europea il sottoscritto faccia parte di una minoranza, almeno a giudicare dalla lettura della sentenza del &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Tribunale di Primo Grado comunitario dell’8 luglio ( T-28/08, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Mars, Inc. v. Ludwig Schokolade GmbH &amp;amp; Co. KG, SHAPE OF A CHOCOLATE BAR – &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt; che ha confermato che la forma del Bounty della Mars non può essere registrata come marchio per mancanza di carattere distintivo&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;          &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;La storia del marchio comunitario n. 818864, è già abbastanza conosciuta&lt;/span&gt;. In sintesi, il 7/5/1998&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:personname productid="la Mars Inc." st="on"&gt;la Mars Inc.&lt;/st1:personname&gt; richiede la registrazione come marchio di forma della barretta di cioccolato Bounty.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3PmX8mMFriY/SlZ4qdFXAaI/AAAAAAAAAD8/k1wGHmJKAeU/s1600-h/696_Bounty.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 212px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3PmX8mMFriY/SlZ4qdFXAaI/AAAAAAAAAD8/k1wGHmJKAeU/s320/696_Bounty.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356601477560730018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204); font-weight: bold;"&gt;L'UAMI concede la registrazione il 24/4/2003. Pochi mesi dopo, precisamente in data 11/12/2003, l'impresa Ludwig Schokolade GmbH &amp;amp; Co. KG chiede all'UAMI di annullare il marchio in questione, ess&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204); font-weight: bold;"&gt;enz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204); font-weight: bold;"&gt;ialmente per mancanza di carattere distintivo. In prima battuta, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:personname style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204); font-weight: bold;" productid="la Divisione" st="on"&gt;la  Divisione&lt;/st1:personname&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204); font-weight: bold;"&gt; d'Annullamento dell'UAMI respinge la richiesta, ma successivamente le Commissioni di Ricorso danno ragione a Ludwig Schokolade ed annullano il marchio in questione. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Il TPG ha appena confermato l'annullamento del marchio tridimensionale della Mars&lt;/span&gt;, seguendo sostanzialmente lo stesso ragionamento delle Commissioni di Ricorso. La motivazione può riassumersi come segue:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;-&lt;span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-size:7;" &gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204); font-weight: bold;"&gt;In marchio in questione, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204); font-weight: bold;"&gt;che è stato richiesto come marchio tridimensionale&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204); font-weight: bold;"&gt;,  non è &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204); font-weight: bold;"&gt;per se&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204); font-weight: bold;"&gt; distintivo e va rigettato ex Art. 7.1 b) del RMC&lt;/span&gt;, perché non presenta differenze significative rispetto alle altre barrette di cioccolato presenti nel mercato. Non c'è quindi bisogno di fare riferimento alla lettera c), né alla lettera e) dello stesso articolo.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;-&lt;span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-size:7;" &gt;        &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51);"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Riguardo al &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51); font-weight: bold;"&gt;secondary meaning&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51); font-weight: bold;"&gt;, le prove dell’acquisita distintività della forma del Bounty sulla base dell’uso nel mercato sono ritenute insufficienti&lt;/span&gt;. In particolare, le prove sarebbero, in principio, sufficienti per dimostrare il &lt;i&gt;secondary meaning&lt;/i&gt; solo in 6 degli allora 15 Stati comunitari (Regno Unito, Belgio, Francia, Italia, Gemania e Paesi Bassi), però in ogni caso questi Stati non rappresenterebbero una “parte sostanziale” del territorio comunitario. &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Per superare la mancanza originaria di distintività occorrerebbe comprovare in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;tutti &lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;i &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;territori &lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;l’acquisizione del secondary meaning&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Dal mio modesto punto di vista, il TPG su questo punto è forse stato eccessivamente esigente&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Questa decisione sfavorevole è un nuovo capitolo nella tormentata storia dei tentativi della Mars di registrare come marchio comunitario la forma dei suoi prodotti&lt;/span&gt;. Infatti, basta dare un’occhiata al CTM-online per rendersi conto che, se da un lato è riuscita ad ottenere protezione per la forma di vari dei suoi dolciumi più famosi (per esempio, il Twix), dall’altro si è vista costretta a rinunciare in almeno una decina di casi simili. Vedremo se, alla fine, si potrà esclamare &lt;i&gt;dulcis in fundo&lt;/i&gt;!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="margin-left: 54pt; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-TRAD"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-2409856695353365549?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/2409856695353365549/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=2409856695353365549' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/2409856695353365549'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/2409856695353365549'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/07/secondary-meaning-sta-diventando-una.html' title='Secondary meaning: sta diventando una probatio diabolica?'/><author><name>Anna.Cardillo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05028077967736625733</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3PmX8mMFriY/SlZ4qdFXAaI/AAAAAAAAAD8/k1wGHmJKAeU/s72-c/696_Bounty.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-5190865601583644177</id><published>2009-07-09T23:41:00.015+02:00</published><updated>2009-07-10T07:44:20.207+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Blog metaformale: la sfida di pensare in modo diverso al marchio</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;               &lt;style type="text/css"&gt;  &lt;!--   @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm }   P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm }  --&gt;&lt;/style&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;                  &lt;style type="text/css"&gt;  &lt;!--   @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm }   P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm }  --&gt;  &lt;/style&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;"La comunicazione visiva si espleta attraverso la traduzione-trascrizione della realtà visibile in emozionabilità percepibile attraverso una rarefazione progressiva della forma leggibile, parziale (Formale) o sempre più estrema (Informale), purché sempre sottintesa.”&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Così si legge nel&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;manifesto &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/SlZ7Vzdm9-I/AAAAAAAAAL0/WWN2lU-Xp8g/s1600-h/quadro.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 172px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/SlZ7Vzdm9-I/AAAAAAAAAL0/WWN2lU-Xp8g/s200/quadro.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356604421325649890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;(2008) del movimento artistico METAFORMALE, di cui&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Stefano Sandri&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;è uno dei promotori&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sarà forse per questo che la definizione è perfettamente trasferibile alla percezione del marchio da parte dei consumatori&lt;/span&gt;, in cui sono riscontrabili tutti gli elementi essenziali della prospettiva meramente giuridica dei giorni nostri. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Ved&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;iamo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt; Il marchio è pacificamento un mezzo della moderna &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;comunicazione visiva, e non solo.&lt;/span&gt; Altrettanto evidente la sua &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;funzione mediatrice tra il dato fenomenico (il &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;segno), così come viene visto e quello che  viene percepito,&lt;/span&gt; come ci insegna la Corte di Giustizia.                                  &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;La traduzione - trascrizione della realtà è operata dalle regole predefinite dei processi percettivi, integrate dagli apporti dell’esperienza comune di ciascuno di noi, anche quando perseguiamo interessi economici ed agiamo come consumatori.&lt;/span&gt; E naturalmente &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;la carica e l’impatto emozionale sono sempre più determinanti nella intercettazione dei messaggi che l’impresa trasmette attraverso la veicolazione del marchio&lt;/span&gt;. Inoltre &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;il segno&lt;/span&gt;, le cui &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;informazioni rilevate dal mondo esterno vengono già filtrate e selezionate al momento dell’attenzione, &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;quando fa il suo ingresso nella memoria è soggetto alla rarefazione p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/SlZ7slydfbI/AAAAAAAAAL8/bGX_TchTT3o/s1600-h/segno.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 172px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/SlZ7slydfbI/AAAAAAAAAL8/bGX_TchTT3o/s200/segno.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356604812792004018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;rogressiva&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;perdendo nel tempo e nello spazio dettagli marginali ed insignificanti&lt;/span&gt;, ciò che trova riscontro nelle massime giurisprudenziali sul giudizio di sintesi e del confronto di un segno con il ricordo che il consumatore ha del primo nei giudizi di confondibilità tra i marchi. &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;A ben vedere che la forma leggibile (il marchio è una forma di linguaggio) sia formale o informale non è neanche di per sé esclusiva dell’espressione artistica, perché entrambe sottointendono, ma non dichiarano, la &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;forma rappresentata.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Si ritrova quindi la classica dicotomia tra il marchio descrittivo e quello suggestivo.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(255, 204, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;La ricerca della &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;forma &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;al di là della forma che qualifica il ricordato movimento &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;esprime dunque un modo di pensare, un metodo di esame utilizzabile nell’avvicinarci alla compren&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/SlZ76m-jKWI/AAAAAAAAAME/gVN492NBhW0/s1600-h/design.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 172px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/SlZ76m-jKWI/AAAAAAAAAME/gVN492NBhW0/s200/design.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356605053629311330" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;sione del dato fenomenico del marchio e della corretta soluzione dei suoi fondamentali problemi giuridici&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt; l’identità, la istintività, la confondibilità&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;L’arte ci insegna che il marchio, come segno di comunicazione, è narrazione, creazione in divenire, pur se rappresentato staticamente nella formula legale, crea e trasmette emozioni  condivisibili tra due soggetti, il proponente ed il ricevente, riscatta il reale dalla banalità dell’usuale, esprime l’essenziale, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;tralasciando il superfluo. Tutte le discipline, non solo quelle artistiche, sono legittimate a perseguire coralmente e contestualmente un’efficace performance espressiva che trasmette emozionalità creativa e percettiva, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;in una visione olistica ed interdisciplinare della conoscenza, compresa quella giuridica.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Troppo difficile? Ma cos’è più attraente ed affascinante di una sfida difficile?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-5190865601583644177?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/5190865601583644177/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=5190865601583644177' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/5190865601583644177'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/5190865601583644177'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/07/blog-metaformale-se-sia-troppo.html' title='Blog metaformale: la sfida di pensare in modo diverso al marchio'/><author><name>Eleonora Fia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10953777337908380457</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/SlZ7Vzdm9-I/AAAAAAAAAL0/WWN2lU-Xp8g/s72-c/quadro.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-1336286398617798961</id><published>2009-07-03T23:33:00.018+02:00</published><updated>2009-07-04T14:26:27.156+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Toward a ‘virtual’ design?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;Stefano Sandri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;Let us Look at these design&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;which have been &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;examined  by OHIM&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/Sk9GAOPTb4I/AAAAAAAAALM/S6E122aBg3I/s1600-h/blog1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 96px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/Sk9GAOPTb4I/AAAAAAAAALM/S6E122aBg3I/s200/blog1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354575451603038082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;The opponent claimed that  the RCD was invalidated by the publication of a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;prior design&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/Sk9GRa8XRTI/AAAAAAAAALU/gGd_1kze6mQ/s1600-h/blog2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 96px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/Sk9GRa8XRTI/AAAAAAAAALU/gGd_1kze6mQ/s200/blog2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354575747071034674" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The invalidity division of OHIM&lt;/span&gt;, however, &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;disagreed&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51); font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;The two opposing &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;design&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;s are almost identical, saved the&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;flashing feature throwing a soft blue light  invisible, &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;shown in one of the tree &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;views of RCD, as above reported, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;and &lt;/span&gt;that has been reputed as&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;enough as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;to mark the substantial difference between the two radiators , &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;in spite of the immateriality of the figured feature&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-1336286398617798961?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/1336286398617798961/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=1336286398617798961' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/1336286398617798961'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/1336286398617798961'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/07/toward-virtual-design.html' title='Toward a ‘virtual’ design?'/><author><name>Eleonora Fia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10953777337908380457</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/Sk9GAOPTb4I/AAAAAAAAALM/S6E122aBg3I/s72-c/blog1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-5204209112648561052</id><published>2009-07-03T12:13:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2009-07-03T12:41:00.098+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stefano sandri'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='percezione'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='flexibility'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Confondibilità'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='memory'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stability'/><title type='text'>Please, don’t forget how your memory works</title><content type='html'>&lt;ul  style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;b&gt;S&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;tefano Sandri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"  align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;What really consists   the long term memory  mechanism of ?&lt;/span&gt; Why  the consumers still  and so long retain the Coca-cola trade mark’ all over the world?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;ul style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;I tried to   give an answer to these intriguing demands in my recent search&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204); font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;namely  in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;Percepire il marchio. dall’identità  del segno alla confondibilità&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt; , 2007&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; since clearly the answer  can be of assistance in assessing the distinctive character of the trade  mark and  its confusing similarity with other signs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; In my work  I stressed, inter alia, that the trademark is a process, subject to  changes and evolution, and not a  well defined outcome. This process  is governed and guided by some pre- organized  perception   rules  together with the contribution flowing from the daily   experience of the human been. Thanks to the momentum of the attention,   the information coming from the outside world is selected and transferred  into the store of the memory. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;ul style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1UF-iQhR75g/Sk3eHitN6tI/AAAAAAAAAB0/g_0vYGNAu0Q/s1600-h/clip_image002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 157px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1UF-iQhR75g/Sk3eHitN6tI/AAAAAAAAAB0/g_0vYGNAu0Q/s200/clip_image002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354179753170299602" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;The scientific research  recently carried out by some Nord-American University, at large referred  to by media,  shows now that such transfer would be accompanied  through the neuronic via by the emission of new protein which has been  photographed. The process is activated within the synapse, the brain  structure which is delegated to receive, exchange and store the data  and information received.&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;In particular, the search makes apparent that   the storage in the memory of all the signs, trade mark included, is  strongly affected by  stability and flexibility.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt; Stability &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;  leads to solve the legal problem of the identity of the mark, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;i.e&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;.  what message it transfers and how it is perceived by the relevant public  (ECJ, case INTEL and CFI, Case FIORUCCI).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Flexibility&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;, on its turn,  facilitates the better understanding of the discussion between the supporters  of an abstract approach to the legal assessment of the trade mark and  those on favour of the concrete terms  (ECJ, case OPEL ADAM). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;ul style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The scientific discover  of the American researchers will improve the understanding of the mechanism  which stay beyond the creation of the consumer remind  when they  meet a mark (and supports my thesis !). According to the EC law , the  essential function of a trade mark is &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;to   enabling the consumer, who acquired  goods or services identified by the mark, to   repeat the experience, if it proves to be positive, or to avoid it,  if it proves to be negative, on the occasion of a subsequent acquisition &lt;/span&gt; ( &lt;/i&gt;CFI, case HENKEL, and many others&lt;i&gt;).&lt;/i&gt; The more the trade  mark is stable  in its relative network of its components (dominant,  marginal, decorative etc.),  the more it will be retained in the  consumer’ mind (see my matrix on the trademark identity).&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; The more  the context &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;of all the pertinent  and relevant circumstances &lt;/span&gt; (&lt;/i&gt;ECJ case SABEL&lt;i&gt;)&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;will be considered by the jurists, the more  reactive will be the recall (and the strong) of the trademark in the  consumer’ memory.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;ul  style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Time is coming, dear  Colleges, to start to think on trademarks not in mere legal terms.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-5204209112648561052?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/5204209112648561052/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=5204209112648561052' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/5204209112648561052'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/5204209112648561052'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/07/please-dont-forget-how-your-memory.html' title='Please, don’t forget how your memory works'/><author><name>Andrea Cicogna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01753243577452394535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1UF-iQhR75g/Sk3eHitN6tI/AAAAAAAAAB0/g_0vYGNAu0Q/s72-c/clip_image002.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-3201697355683619109</id><published>2009-06-25T15:25:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2009-06-25T18:52:32.779+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lorenzo Litta'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='risarcimento danni'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='louis vuitton'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marhci'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Croce Rossa'/><title type='text'>Sparare sulla Croce Rossa ?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fakeorreal.co.uk/grafics/real%20louis%20vuitton.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 205px; height: 210px;" src="http://www.fakeorreal.co.uk/grafics/real%20louis%20vuitton.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" &gt;Lorenzo Litta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" &gt;Le notizie che arrivano dalla &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Germania&lt;/span&gt; sono sempre le più interessanti, soprattutto quando hanno a che fare con italiani, francesi ed il gossip...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" &gt;Questa volta è &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;Louis Vuitton che aiuta a far sorridere&lt;/span&gt; anche in una torrida giornata di inizio estate, quando il &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.comune.firenze.it/soggetti/cri_ottavo/Image8.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 161px; height: 160px;" src="http://www.comune.firenze.it/soggetti/cri_ottavo/Image8.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" &gt;sole si vede dalla finestra e le ferie estive sono solo un lontano miraggio.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" &gt;L'illustre quotidiano "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;Spiegel&lt;/span&gt;" &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;riporta &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" href="http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/0,1518,632087,00.html"&gt;qui&lt;/a&gt; di una curiosa iniziativa di &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;Louis Vuitton&lt;/span&gt;, che avrebbe "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;rinunciato alla richiesta di risarcimento danni di Euro 2.600&lt;/span&gt;" nei confronti di un negozio che offriva borse contraffatte a soli 3 Euro.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" &gt;PS: &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;il negozio in questione era di proprietà della Croce Rossa Tedesca e vendeva abiti ed accessori di seconda-mano per beneficenza&lt;/span&gt;...&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;e la Convenzione di Ginevra ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-3201697355683619109?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/3201697355683619109/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=3201697355683619109' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/3201697355683619109'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/3201697355683619109'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/06/sparare-sulla-croce-rossa.html' title='Sparare sulla Croce Rossa ?'/><author><name>Blogmaster</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08930373460758131951</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-3131824272927639536</id><published>2009-06-11T10:13:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2009-06-11T12:10:54.213+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Tu... facciamo che ti chiami Lotus, è?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Andrea Cicogna&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:16;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(57, 57, 57); line-height: 16px; text-align: left;font-size:12;" &gt;&lt;p   style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 20px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:14px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;“Il Gruppo Lotus PLC e la sua sussidiaria Lotus Cars Limited, costruttore dell’iconica Elise e consulente ingegneristico di livello mondiale, non è connesso, affiliato né in alcun modo associato con il Team Lotus che ha richiesto di iscriversi al Mondiale 2010 di&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; F1. Il Gruppo prenderà tutte le contromisure necessarie a proteggere il proprio brand, la propria immagine e la propria reputazione”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:16;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(57, 57, 57); line-height: 16px; text-align: left;font-size:12;" &gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:4rNUpeRJe60o8M:http://autoinsight.blogosfere.it/images/lotus_logo_01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 109px; height: 111px;" src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:4rNUpeRJe60o8M:http://autoinsight.blogosfere.it/images/lotus_logo_01.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 20px;font-size:14px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Queste quattro righe di comunicato rispecchiano a pieno tutto lo stile Lotus, una ricerca costante dell'ec&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;cellenza ingegneristica in puro stile britannico. Un comunicato così lascia di sasso un pò tutti, dai nostalgici ai neofiti, perchè la gloriosa lotus ha fatto la storia della Formula 1, e chi ne sa già gustava il ritorno di questa, nella massima vetrina mondiale. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 153, 51);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Invece la casa brit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 153, 51);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;annica non ne vuol proprio sentire di tornare in quel carosello di automobili che più di tutti da un'idea di precario, in continuo mutamento, più legato al delirio d'onnipotenza dei suoi vertici che non alla reale competizione.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; Ora per rimanere però sul tema del marchio,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt; la Litespeed, ovvero la "nuova Lotus" giura che David Hunt, colui che detiene i diritti di sfruttamento del marchio Lotus, gli ha concesso il diritto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;. Noi siamo dubbiosi al riguardo e per verifica attenderemo gli sviluppi della vicenda.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:16;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(57, 57, 57); line-height: 16px; text-align: left;font-size:12;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(57, 57, 57); line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:bd4POrUc8WAnmM:http://grandprixarchives.wordpress.com/files/2006/10/senna.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 137px; height: 103px;" src="http://tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:bd4POrUc8WAnmM:http://grandprixarchives.wordpress.com/files/2006/10/senna.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;Comunque la domanda che mi pongo è: "qualora Litespeed ottenesse in concessione di correre con il marchio Lotus, che senso avrebbe?" Il marchio Lotus ha in dote un know how che forse possiamo definire irraggiungibile per chiunque, che senso avrebbe cedere il marchio senza tutto ciò che gli sta dietro? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Forse Mosley e la sua federazione cercano per l'ennesima volta di creare maggiore confusione, "buttando nel calderone" team nuovi dal "sapore antico". &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;Non basterebbe forse modificare i regolamenti e "mantenerli" per far tornare la Formula 1 quella vetrina appetita da tutti i costruttori di automobili?  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-3131824272927639536?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/3131824272927639536/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=3131824272927639536' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/3131824272927639536'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/3131824272927639536'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/06/tu-facciamo-che-ti-chiami-lotus-e.html' title='Tu... facciamo che ti chiami Lotus, è?'/><author><name>Andrea Cicogna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01753243577452394535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-7148103615496500438</id><published>2009-05-26T15:53:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2009-05-27T12:20:49.599+02:00</updated><title type='text'>D.D.L. n.1195 e dintorni: confusione o  miopia?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;b&gt;S&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;tefano Sandri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"  align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Chi non conosce il capolavoro  del design italiano dell’Architetto Castiglioni della lampada ARCO  che da tempo la FLOS  ha sul mercato?. E’ accaduto che un concorrente  ha importato dal solito cinese la riproduzione dell’articolo ed il  Tribunale di Milano ha prontamente concesso sequestro e tutela inibitoria  alla FLOS (cf. in questo blog…..). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1UF-iQhR75g/Shv2O8AahkI/AAAAAAAAABs/ttmnL7eJ5bw/s1600-h/arco.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 164px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1UF-iQhR75g/Shv2O8AahkI/AAAAAAAAABs/ttmnL7eJ5bw/s200/arco.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340132519664322114" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"&gt;Nel corso del giudizio  di merito son però arrivate le modifiche legislative che tutti conoscono,  ingenerando un ignobile pasticciaccio di incoerenze e contraddizioni&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"  align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Che l’ultima modifica  del DDL n.1195, a seguire quella della L. 46/2007, art.4, &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;sia l’ultimo  esempio della schizofrenia legislativa in materia è a tutti chiaro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt; Quello che è meno comprensibile è lo sforzo disperato della dottrina  italiana di far quadrare il circolo&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;cfr. da ultimo il tentativo, pur  pregevole, di Giorgio Floridia in Newsletter AIPPI, 2/2009&lt;/span&gt;) &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;in una situazione  normativa in cui palesemente le lobby interessate la fanno da padroni&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt; Sembra infatti sfuggire ai più che il problema interpretativo dell’attuale  disciplina transitorio del rapporto diritto d’autore- design, riversato  nel &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;testo attuale dell’art.239 CPI,&lt;/span&gt; è innanzi tutto un problema di  conformità alla &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Direttiva Comunitaria  98/71/CE , art. 17 e 19&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.  Ricordo infatti che, per espressa delega legislativa, il Codice è stato  verificato nella sua compatibilità ed attuazione del diritto internazionale,  ed in primo luogo del diritto comunitario della proprietà industriale.  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;La Direttiva in proposito, nell’abolire il criterio italiano della  scindibilità, ha introdotto il riconoscimento della cumulabilità delle  due tutele (quella del DLA  quella del design), con la sola riserva  a favore degli Stati membri di “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;determinare autonomamente l’estensione  della protezione e le condizioni alle quali essa  è concessa&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;”&lt;/span&gt;. Mi pare quindi che per capirci qualcosa in questo  guazzabuglio nostrano  sarà meglio partire proprio dalla Direttiva,  alla quale pretendiamo di essere ossequiosi. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"  align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;Il Tribunale di Milano  (&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;ordinanza del 12 marzo-30 aprile 2009&lt;/span&gt;), a fronte della discussione  al momento irrisolta e miope della nostra dottrina, ha invece colto  perfettamente l’essenza del problema, riconducendolo correttamente  nel contesto del rapporto diritto interno - diritto comunitario e –  come si dice- per non saper di leggere e scrivere, ha rimesso la questione  alla Corte di giustizia per l&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;’interpretazione pregiudiziale ex art.234  del Trattato&lt;/span&gt; sulla domanda: se quella riserva comprenda o meno anche  il diritto di  escludere o meno dalla protezione i design che   erano caduti in pubblico dominio anteriormente alla entrata in vigore  delle disposizioni che introducevano nell’ordinamento interno la protezione  del DLA per i design&lt;/span&gt;.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"  align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;Sarà dunque la Corte  di giustizia, che ha titolo e legittimazione per farlo, a dirci come  dovremo tenerci, anche in vista del &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;ddl 1195&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. Con un po’ di pazienza  (tanto nessun procedimento in corso da noi arriverà alla definitività  prima di tale chiarimento).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"  &gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-7148103615496500438?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/7148103615496500438/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=7148103615496500438' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/7148103615496500438'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/7148103615496500438'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/05/ddl-n1195-e-dintorni-confusione-o.html' title='D.D.L. n.1195 e dintorni: confusione o  miopia?'/><author><name>Andrea Cicogna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01753243577452394535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1UF-iQhR75g/Shv2O8AahkI/AAAAAAAAABs/ttmnL7eJ5bw/s72-c/arco.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-6765046941285652012</id><published>2009-05-25T11:37:00.011+02:00</published><updated>2009-05-27T12:21:55.766+02:00</updated><title type='text'>La volgarizzazione di CYBER</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Stefano Sandri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;meta equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;title&gt;&lt;/title&gt;&lt;meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 2.4  (Win32)"&gt;&lt;style type="text/css"&gt; 	&lt;!-- 		@page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } 		P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } 	-&lt;/style&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span lang="fr-FR"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204); font-weight: bold;"&gt;CYBERCREDIT, CYBERGESTION, CYBERGUICHET, CYBERBOURSE et CYBERHOME non sono distintivi nel settore informatico come marchi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Lo ha detto il TPI&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt; (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;T 211/06, T 213/06, T 245/06, T 155/07 e T 178/07 del 19 maggio 2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;il quale ha osservato che il pubblico interessato percepirà i segni in questione come  delle&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt; formule promozionali&lt;/span&gt;, e &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;non&lt;/span&gt; com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;e delle &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;indicazioni delle origini commerciali dei prodotti e servizi contraddistinti&lt;/span&gt;, dal momento che vantano u&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;na loro caratteristica e qualità, quella della modernità e della loro adattabilità alle nuove tecniche dell’informazione&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/ShpoL1rN9NI/AAAAAAAAAJc/vqMRuHzNBY4/s1600-h/3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 131px; height: 98px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/ShpoL1rN9NI/AAAAAAAAAJc/vqMRuHzNBY4/s400/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339694860797342930" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;L’UAMI aveva valutato che gli elementi «cyber», «credit», «gestion», «guichet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;»&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;, «bourse» et «ho&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;me», presi separatamente,  erano privi di carattere distintivi in relazione ai prodotti e servizi rivendicati nel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;a domanda.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Inoltre,&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt; la combinazione del termine «cyber», da una parte, e «credit», «gestion», «guichet», «&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;bourse» ou «home», dall’altra, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;«&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;rispondevano ad una costruzione lessicale abituale e non non rappresentavan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;o altro che la somma dei segni di cui era composta&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;»&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;Insomma, anche se non è stato detto espressamente, &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204); font-weight: bold;"&gt;« cyber » non è più utile nella ricerca di nuovi marchi nell’area informatica&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p face="trebuchet ms" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-6765046941285652012?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/6765046941285652012/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=6765046941285652012' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/6765046941285652012'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/6765046941285652012'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/05/la-volgarizzazione-di-cyber.html' title='La volgarizzazione di CYBER'/><author><name>Eleonora Fia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10953777337908380457</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VPeAN5GPl4g/ShpoL1rN9NI/AAAAAAAAAJc/vqMRuHzNBY4/s72-c/3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24586751.post-191424295102515256</id><published>2009-05-24T13:06:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2009-05-27T11:08:40.595+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='patents'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='EPC'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Uspto'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='biotec'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='epo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Olga Capasso'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Human cells'/><title type='text'>Human embryos: no – Human stem cells: yes. EPO vs. USPTO</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.unisi.it/santachiara/pdf/curriculum_docenti/cv%20capasso.pdf"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Olga Capasso&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div  style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;On 25 November 2008, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;the Enlarged Board of Appeals (EBA) of the European Patent Office issued the Decision G 0002/06, known as the decision of the patentability of human stem cells&lt;/span&gt;. The case refers to a patent application filed by WARF (Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation), rejected by the EPO Examination Division (also) because &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;in conflict with Rule 28(c) EPC&lt;/span&gt;. In this short analysis, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;I only focused on the EBA's interpretation of such rule&lt;/span&gt; which, in compliance with art. 6(2)c of Directive 98/44 on the Protection of Biotechnological Inv&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://yeastgenomics.ca/files/budding_yeast.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 203px; height: 196px;" src="http://yeastgenomics.ca/files/budding_yeast.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;entions, states the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;unpatentability of biotechnological inventions referring to uses of human embryos for industrial or commercial purposes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; In 2006, the Technical Board of Appeals, having received an appeal petition from the Applicant, decided to submit general and  interpretation questions to EBA. Therefore, s&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;uch decision shall be useful for the purpose of interpretation in connection with  pending and future patent applications&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; It seems to be worthy reminding the specific content of claim 1 of WARF's patent application that is a cell culture comprising  primate (including man) embryonic stem cells, provided with some specific characteristics, as listed in the claim itself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;The EBA decided that the prohibition of patenting products&lt;/span&gt; (in this case, human embryonic stem cell cultures) &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;which, at the time of filing the patent application, could be prepared exc&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;lusively by a method which necessarily involved the use and consequent destruction of human embryos&lt;/span&gt; (as admitted by the applicant), &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;is applicable also to cases in which such method is not specifically included in the claims&lt;/span&gt;. The EBA, in fact, pointed out as &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"&gt;the mentioned rule does not mention the word "claims", but more generally does refer to "inventions"&lt;/span&gt;, in the context of their exploitation. Therefore, still according to the EBA, limiting the application of such rule to cases where the use of human embryos is present in the claim wording would be incorrect; it is the technical teaching of the patent application as a whole that is to be considered. Otherwise, the applicability of such rule would be made dependent on claims' formal wording. Therefore, &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;the EBA concluded that the examination to assess patentability according to Rule 28(c) should not focus exclusively on the claimed subject-matter, but should include all aspects which make the claimed subject-matter available to the public&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; Moreover, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;the EBA considered as irrelevant the fact that technical developments were made after the filing date of the patent application, allowing cells to be obtained by methods not involving the destruction of human embryos&lt;/span&gt;. The use of human embryos (and their consequent destruction) was considered as an essential part of the industrial and commercial exploitation of the claimed invention. Still according to the EBA, when considering whether an invention complies with the rules providing for unpatentability of human embryos, technical developments which became publicly available only after the filing date cannot be taken into consideration. Any other conclusion would lead to a legal uncertainty. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;Such EBA way of argumentation is already known and applied&lt;/span&gt;, by way of example, when the sufficiency of description requirement is examined: such requirement must be met by the patent application disclosure as filed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; The Decision further examined in closer detail the significance of the use of embryos for the purpose of industrial or commercial exploitation, stating that their use as starting material for the generation of products of industrial application (that is, the claimed human embryonic stem cells) means actually a use for industrial purposes, and thus unpatentable. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 153, 153);"&gt;The wording of art. 6 of Directive 98/44, from which the EPC Rule was taken, has the meaning of considering as patentable only those inventions - for therapeutic or diagnostic purposes - which are applied to the human embryo and useful to it &lt;/span&gt;(see Recital 42 of said Directive: Whereas, moreover, uses of human embryos for industrial or commercial purposes must also be excluded from patentability; whereas in any case such exclusion does not affect inventions for therapeutic or diagnostic purposes which are applied to the human embryo and are useful to it).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.biott.it/writable/content_attachments/files/Profili/olga.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 175px; height: 175px;" src="http://www.biott.it/writable/content_attachments/files/Profili/olga.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;By such Decision, the EPO provided a substantive interpretation of the exclusion of human embryos from patentability&lt;/span&gt;, including cases in which uses of human embryos are specific subject-matter of claims and cases in which they have to be necessarily used for obtaining the claimed matter, as well. The EBA pointed out that the purpose of the Rule in exam complies, in fact, with Directive 98/44, which is directed to specifically exclude human embryos from patentability, thus reaffirming its opposition to any una&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;uthorised uses of the same (the German Bundespatentgericht issued recently the decision No. 3 Ni 42/04 of 5 December 2006 in agreement therewith).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;The interpretation of EBA shall be of relevance for pending and future cases&lt;/span&gt;: as a matter of fact the restriction to patentability shall not apply to inventions concerning human stem cells (or cell cultures) in general, but only to those obtained by the use and destruction of human embryos. Consequently, inventions concerning human stem cells, not obtained by means of destruction of human embryos, are not excluded from patentability in accordance with Rule 28(c) EPC. This aspect may hopefully have some positive outcome on several EP pending patent applications.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;The consequences the above may have on decisions of National Courts can hardly be foreseen&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; What about the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;parallel WARF case in the USA&lt;/span&gt;? On 26 June 2008, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;after a re-examination procedure, the USPTO confirmed the  issuance of two WARF patents, of the same family as the EP patent application&lt;/span&gt;. The former (US 5,483,780) refers to primate's  cells and to a method for obtaining them from primate's blastocyst (the cell organisation stage during embryogenesis before the  differentiation between embryo and nutritive tissues and implantation takes place), the latter (US 6,200,806) refers to human  embryonic stem cells in pre-implantation phase.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt; The harmonisation of patent laws governing the biotech sector is still a daydream!  &lt;/span&gt;              &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24586751-191424295102515256?l=ice-ip.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/feeds/191424295102515256/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24586751&amp;postID=191424295102515256' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/191424295102515256'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24586751/posts/default/191424295102515256'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ice-ip.blogspot.com/2009/05/human-embryos-no-human-stem-cells-yes.html' title='Human embryos: no – Human stem cells: yes. 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