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 […]
Category Archives: Internet & domains
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 […]
Blogs, Wikipedia and unfair competition
In Germany, two interesting decisions have been taken concerning publishing information on blogs and also on Wikipedia, the famous “open” enciclopedia that everybody can contribute to. The Court of Appeal of Munich (verdict 515/12, 10 May 2012) has ordained that providing info on Wikipedia can be seen as business if it consists of providing info […]
New domains: who can oppose registration
As stated previously, the first phase for sending the application requests for the first level domain names ended last March. In June, the ICANN has published on the institutional website the over 2000 requests it received and many of these have chosen general words (.academy, .shop, etc.). Therefore a second phase for this procedure started […]