Portfolio Management

The “Cheval Blanc” case, or the importance of trademark monitoring

While protecting your trade mark, effective and regular trademark monitoring is essential. This is one of the lessons standing out from the French Supreme Court decision of June 8th, 2017 in the Cheval Blanc case (Cour Cass, Ch. com., June 8th, 2017, decision No 15-21.357). To quickly introduce this decision’s background, Château Cheval Blanc is …

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Copie de concept et concurrence déloyale: une action délicate à bien anticiper

In a recent ruling dated July 4, 2013 in a case between Ameliste and Zankyou Ventures, the Paris Court of Appeal restated that a concept can only be considered as copied if any elements protected by intellectual property rights have been reproduced and unfair trading practices have been used. So the question remains as to …

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