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Retromark 2025: Event Report (Part 1 - the write-up)

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Panel 1: It looks like lookalikes are no longer liked: has the Court of Appeal moved the dial in favour of brand owners? Alessandros Katpost on Lidl v Tesco here] The relevance of comparative advertising law has increased. Overall, there was a strong sense that the dial has shifted in favour of trade mark owners and brands.

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[Guest post] Parasitic advertising on UEFA Euro 2020: Italian Competition Authority imposes first sanction for ambush marketing

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Here's what Anna Maria and Lorenzo write: Parasitic advertising on UEFA Euro 2020: Italian Competition Authority imposes first sanction for ambush marketing by Anna Maria Stein and Lorenzo Maniaci Ambush Kat By its decision No. 16 of 11 March 2020 ('Law-Decree No. 16/2020'), converted with amendments, by Law No. 31 of 8 May 2020 ('Law No.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (April 14 – April 20)

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2025) has addressed an important question: when does a creative work become an industrial design outside the realm of copyright? Candidates may send their cover letter and CV on or before April 30, 2025. The workshop is scheduled for 1216 June 2025 at IUCIPRS, CUSAT, Kochi, Kerala. Inox India Ltd. For more details, see the post.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 3 – March 9)

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[Sponsored] CRISP (BITS Law School) Invites Applications for Innovation Law and Policy Fellowship (1 April 2025) Centre for Research in Innovation Law for Shared Prosperity, BITS Law School is inviting applications for their Innovation Law and Policy Fellowship. The last day to send your applications is April 1, 2025.

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Saturday Sundries

The IPKat

Registration is also open for the CIPA annual congress, which will take place in Bristol on Thursday 9 October 2025. New Study on Digital Services Act's transparency rules A new IViR / ASCoR study explores whether the Digital Services Act's transparency rules help consumers escape personalized advertising "filter bubbles."

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Putting bad faith to bed: Wakefit reclaims its domain

Selvam & Selvam Blog

The arbitral award dated February 28, 2025 , underscores the importance of accurate registrant information and reinforces that cybersquatting – even passive holding of infringing domains will not go unchecked. The company also owns the domain wakefit.co , which clearly pre-dates the disputed domain.

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materiality surveys may not need controls

43(B)log

14-MD-2542 (VSB), 2025 WL 354671 (S.D.N.Y. 30, 2025) This is a ruling on 19 motions to exclude expert testimony in this case, which is mostly an antitrust case; I will focus only on some false advertising-relevant rulings. brewer works only with Keurig brand or licensed pods) but some did not (e.g.,