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

February 21, 2013Bogdan IvaniševićBlog, Copyright, Intellectual Property

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

January 23, 2013Bogdan IvaniševićBlog, Copyright, Intellectual Property

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...

BDK’s Igor Nikolić published in ECLR

December 20, 2012Igor NikolićBlog, Competition, Competition Law - Other Issues

BDK’s Igor Nikolić published an article entitled “Full Judicial Review of Antitrust Cases after KME: A New Formula of Review?” in the December issue of...

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

December 20, 2012Ivan NikolicBlog, Intellectual Property, Trademarks and Trade Names

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...

“Exit” Festival and Foreign Producers of Phonograms: New Challenge for O.F.P.S.

December 18, 2012Bogdan IvaniševićBlog, Copyright, Intellectual Property

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...

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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

BDK’s Igor Nikolić published in ECLR

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

“Exit” Festival and Foreign Producers of Phonograms: New Challenge for O.F.P.S.

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