Please click here to read the latest data privacy alert from Squire Patton Boggs Data Protection & Cyber Security team. This week’s alert covers news from the EU, Germany and the United Kingdom. EU US Data Transfer/Safe Harbor Talks Inch Closer to Deal Germany Bundestag Adopts Draft Law on IT Security German Privacy Commissioner Presents Activity Report … Continue Reading
Maren Ebner reports the case of Best-Lock (Europe) Ltd. v. Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) and Lego Juris A/S (Case T-396/14) in which the General Court has upheld a decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM, finding that Lego’s figure is a valid trademark, despite the fact that it includes … Continue Reading
Please click here to read the latest data privacy alert from Squire Patton Boggs Data Protection & Cyber Security team. This week’s alert covers news from Australia, the EU, Russia, UK and the US. Australia Office of the Australian Information Commissioner Releases Guide to Privacy Regulatory Action EU Article 29 Working Party Opinion on the Draft … Continue Reading
Maren Ebner discusses the case of Levi Strauss & Co v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) (Case T-604/13). The General Court has overturned a decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM, finding that the Community Trade Mark (CTM) application for the word mark 101 was visually and phonetically similar to … Continue Reading
Please click here to read the latest data privacy alert from Squire Patton Boggs Data Protection & Cyber Security team. This week’s alert covers news from the EU, France, Germany, the UK and the United Nations. EU Head of EU Data Protection Says Trading Privacy for Security is a “False Fad” EDRi Asks European Commission to … Continue Reading
Related to our recent blog post on immoral marks, U.S. trademark law also prohibits registration of trademarks that consist of “matter which may disparage … persons, … institutions, beliefs, or national symbols.” This Section of the Lanham Act is central to the long-running controversy over the name of the well-known professional football team, the Washington … Continue Reading
The latest data privacy alert from the Squire Patton Boggs Data Protection & Cyber Security team is now available. This week’s alert covers news from Austria, Belgium, China, EU, Germany and the UK. Austria Austrian Court Rejects Facebook Privacy Case Belgium Belgian Constitutional Court Dismisses Data Retention China China Adopts New Law on National Security EU … Continue Reading
In general, most, if not all, trademark authorities around the world will not allow marks of an immoral nature on their registers. In the U.S., for example, if a “substantial composite of the general public” would perceive the mark, in context, to have a vulgar meaning, then the mark as a whole consists of scandalous … Continue Reading
