The Court of Justice ruled that the use of a meta tag or a domain name is part of the concept of advertising . The statement may seem obvious but it is not so . The sticky point is that meta tags are hidden words which, as such , are not immediately perceived by the […]
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Exclusive rights are not guaranteed by the mere registration of a domain name
The mere registration of a domain name does not legitimate, ex se, the opposition against the application of a trademark. The European Court of Justice ruled in this way rejecting the appeal of Raffaele Morelli, President of the Italian Liberals Association. The lawsuit originated from the filing of the trademark “popolo della libertà” (peoples of […]
Interflora vs. Marks & Spencer: no to the use of the trademark of others as a keyword
On 21.05.2013 the British Court recognized the reasons of Interflora against Marks & Spencer in the court action relative to the use of the trademark as a keyword in Google’s AdWords service. The European Court of Justice had already expressed itself in 2011 in the present case, establishing that the use of a trademark as […]
The Web turns twenty
Maybe it’s because we’ve experienced it and we remember those first pages lacking design that used to load slowly, but it’s nice to remember the World Wide Web’s birthday officially born on the 30th April 1993. Internet already existed as a means of exchange for files and emails mainly through Gopher, but for some time […]