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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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Ice-cream manufacturer Frikom fined for abuse of dominance

December 10, 2012, ,
On 19 November 2012, the Serbian Commission for Protection of Competition (“Commission”) issued a decision finding that Frikom, the largest Serbian ice-cream producer, abused dominance in the wholesale market of...
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Dawn raids: Nexans judgment

December 7, 2012, ,
The Court of Justice of the European Union (General Court) handed down a judgment on 14th December 2012 in Nexans v Commission case concerning the power of the Commission to...
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Breach of procedure as the basis for annulment of the decisions of the Commission for Protection of Competition

November 26, 2012 and , ,
In the course of 2012, the Administrative Court has shown increased readiness to quash the decisions of the Commission for Protection of Competition (“Commission”) for breach of procedural rules. In...
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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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Private Damages Actions For Antitrust Infringements Under Serbian Law

October 4, 2012 and , ,
Competition law infringements not only hurt public interest by distorting competition, but may also inflict direct harm on businesses and consumers reflected in price surcharges. Antitrust enforcement is therefore not...
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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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