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Intellectual Property

Supreme Court of Cassation: Commercial courts have no jurisdiction over trademark disputes between non-commercial legal entities

December 20, 2012, ,
On 9 November 2012, the Serbian Supreme Court of Cassation (SCC) passed a decision resolving the negative conflict of competence that had arisen between the High Court in Belgrade and...
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“Exit” Festival and Foreign Producers of Phonograms: New Challenge for O.F.P.S.

December 18, 2012, ,
The previous post described how the Serbian Commercial Appellate Court denied, in May of this year, a request by the Organization of Phonogram Producers of Serbia (O.F.P.S.) to collect royalties...
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Serbian O.F.P.S. cannot collect royalties for Italian music without an agreement with Italian collecting society

December 13, 2012, ,
Earlier this year, the Serbian Commercial Appellate Court ruled that the Organization of Phonogram Producers of Serbia (O.F.P.S.) had no valid claim to royalties for communication to the public of...
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Chianti wines: Dilution possible where marks for identical products are not confusingly similar

December 11, 2012, ,
The General Court of the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled last Wednesday that there was no likelihood of confusion between the figurative signs featuring a rooster as...
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ECJ: Vital&Fit trademark confusion case

October 31, 2012 and , ,
The Court of Justice of the European Union (General Court) ruled on 25 October 2012 in riha Richard Hartinger Getränke GmbH & Co. Handels-KG v. OHIMabout the likelihood of confusion between a...
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Unauthorized use of trademarks and copyrighted works in movie scenes

October 29, 2012, , ,
The blawgosphere has reacted with consternation to the news that Faulkner Literary Rights, LLC sued Sony Pictures Classics, Inc. on October 25, 2012, over the use of nine words from...
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Novak Djokovic and Danilo Kiš: (un)authorized use of image and name

October 18, 2012, ,
As discussed in the first installment of this two-part post, the Serbian media reported in May 2012 about a book authored by an anonymous Serbian writer, entitled “Kad porastem biću Nole” (“When...
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Djokovic featured on book cover – trademark infringement?

September 30, 2012, ,
In May of this year, tennis player Novak Djokovic – probably the best known Serb alive – became the focus of a controversy with a strong intellectual property flavor. The...
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Plant Variety Rights: Ralf Schräder in discord with lemon symphony

September 26, 2012, ,
The Court of Justice of the European Union has issued only a handful of decisions about plant variety rights, and in such cases the key issue was often licensing, rather than the conditions...
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Serbian courts reject “Crazy House 2011” as a trade name for Chinese food service

September 19, 2012, ,
“Luda kuća” (“Crazy House”, in English) is a well-known Chinese restaurant located in the center of Belgrade. The restaurant is owned by “Luda kuća i prijatelji” (“Crazy House and Friends”),...
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