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Regulatory activity as infringement of competition rules

February 27, 2013Tijana KojovićBlog, Competition, Restrictive Agreements

This post examines whether and to what extent competition rules in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina apply to public authorities when they prescribe regulations that affect or may affect competition in...

E.U. General Court: “B Berg” creates likelihood of confusion when used for sportswear

February 26, 2013Bogdan IvaniševićBlog, Intellectual Property, Trademarks and Trade Names

On 20 February 2013, in Caventa AG v. OHIM, the Fifth Chamber of the General Court of the European Union upheld the decision of OHIM’s Board of Appeal to deny registration...

European courts weigh in on the interaction between intellectual property and (other) human rights

February 21, 2013Bogdan IvaniševićBlog, Intellectual Property, Copyright

The two highest judicial institutions in Europe – European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) – recently issued judgments concerning the relationship...

The Commission Conditionally Approves Sunoko’s Takeover of Hellenic Sugar

February 18, 2013Dragan GajinBlog, Competition, Merger Control

I already wrote in this blog about the January 2012 decision of the Serbian Commission for Protection of Competition blocking Sunoko’s takeover of Hellenic Sugar and the subsequent judgment of the Administrative Court quashing the...

Kitkat, Hershey, Guylian, Mars,…Not all chocolates are trademark-equal

January 31, 2013Bogdan IvaniševićBlog, Intellectual Property, Trademarks and Trade Names

Why are some chocolate shapes, and shapes of other candy, protected as trademarks and other shapes are not? The question comes to mind after reading the decision of 12 December 2012 whereby...

Amendments of 30 January 2013 to the Serbian Trademark Act

January 31, 2013Bogdan IvaniševićBlog, Intellectual Property, Trademarks and Trade Names

On 30 January 2013, the Serbian parliament adopted amendments to the Trademark Act of 2009. Most changes concern procedural aspects of the enforcement in case of an infringement. The remainder of the...

Public procurement and competition under Serbian law

January 30, 2013Dragan GajinBlog, Competition, Competition Law - Other Issues

The topic of this post is the interplay between public procurement and competition regulations. The recently adopted Serbian Law on Public Procurement (“LPP”), to become applicable on 1 April 2013,...

Belgrade court missed an opportunity to clarify the originality of an article

January 23, 2013Bogdan IvaniševićBlog, Intellectual Property, Copyright

The High Court in Belgrade recently decided a case in which the central issue was the originality of a plaintiff’s article published in a magazine and later re-published on her...

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Regulatory activity as infringement of competition rules

E.U. General Court: “B Berg” creates likelihood of confusion when used for sportswear

European courts weigh in on the interaction between intellectual property and (other) human rights

The Commission Conditionally Approves Sunoko’s Takeover of Hellenic Sugar

Kitkat, Hershey, Guylian, Mars,…Not all chocolates are trademark-equal

Amendments of 30 January 2013 to the Serbian Trademark Act

Public procurement and competition under Serbian law

Belgrade court missed an opportunity to clarify the originality of an article

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