Plaintiff makes furniture made of glass fiber and polyethyleen and is the maker of the Ball Chair (designed in 1998(. Ramblaz produces promotion articles and at the request of a brewery a char that looks very much like the Ball Chair. When Ramblaz is confronted by the designer he does not deny the copying, but claims that there are no copyrights, enabling him to freely copy the chair.
An object only receives copyright protection if it is original, and an independent intellectual creation. Which defendant claims it is not since there is an older chair made by Eero Aarnio in 1968, which also features a ball.
At the beginning of this year the Hague Museum announced that they were able to buy one of te original Mondriaan dresses from Yves Saint Lauren. The dress is dubbed as the “mother of Mondriaan merchandise” by the director. We will see much of this merchandise since Piet Mondriaan died in 1944, and copyright expires after 70 years. Does this mean everything is now free to be used?
A good domain name can have great commercial value. There are many companies that register domain names and subsequently sell it for great profits. In order to force a transfer of the domain name there are two options. One can choose to start a procedure with WIPO (a simple procedure to act against domain name hijacking, especially when the domain names are obviously based on a company’s trademark). The second option is to start a court procedure. In the past few years courts have, more and more, given an opinion on whether or not it is allowed to register a domain name of someone else’s trademark. That's the main qustion in the courtcase started by Fuelplaza, to obtain the registered domain name OK.NL
Polo by horseback has been played since ancient antiquity. The American company Ralph Lauren uses this image as a logo for her clothing line. However, there are many other forms of polo, such as bike polo. This sport, which was conceived in 1891, has been going through a revival since the launch of hardcourt Bike polo in 2000.
The sport is mainly played on tennis and basketball courts. Chunk is an English clothing manufacturer, owned by FreshSide, which has a bike polo player as its logo. Ralph Lauren opposes the trademark application when it was filed in 2009.
eBay filed a procedure with the WIPO in November to retrieve more than one thousand domain names. The domain names were registered by a Chinese company three months earlier and were composed of the trademark eBay, followed by three number and then an extension. (for example ebay070.com). According to WIPO it is the second largest claim ever.
On February 7th the new theatre comedy of Toupe of Joep premiered. A week before opening night Blue Circle, the producer of Farmer searches Wife, clearly voiced its unhappiness. In order to prevent coat tail riding the company has registered the name of the program as a trademark.
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Among others in this issue:
• EUIPO vs Mora TV: weigering geluidsmerk
• Jägermeister vs Alte Heiler: stop Russische copycat
• Stichting Nederlandse Top 40: gericht op Benelux?
• Tijdschrift HART vs Hermitage: soortgelijkheid
• Monique Granneman: nieuwe partner Abcor
