NEWSLETTER NO. 48 - October 2003.

CONTENTS:

  • ECTA on Exhibition at INTA Amsterdam

By Keith Havelock

Survey

  • Professional Representation in the European Member States and Candidate Countries; A survey conducted by the ECTA Professional Affairs Committee

By Mireia Curell and Eva Fiammenghi

Position Papers

  • Memorandum to Mr Erik Nooteboom
  • Head of Unit, Internal Market DG, Industrial Property, European Commission. Re: Observations on the proposed amendment of Regulation (EC) No. 40/94 on the Community trade mark: Articles 130 and 131 concerning the Boards of Appeal Dated 4 July 2003
  • Summary-comments on the proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Measures and Procedures to ensure Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights - Com (2003) 46 Final of 30 January 2003 - and Position taken by ECTA in relation tot he Proposal, as agreed at the Council Meeting of 12 June 2003

By Luis H. de Larramendi and Ignacio D. Rivera Elzaburu

Report

  • Standing Committee on the Laws of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications

By Dietrich C. Ohlgart

  • The Implementation of Directive 98/71 on the Legal Protection of Designs in National Law
  • Finland

By Ari-Pekka Launne

  • Ireland

By Shane Smyth

New European Legislation

  • European Council adopts new Regulation (EC) No. 1383/2003 of 22 July 2003 concerning Customs Measures to combat counterfeiting and piracy at the external borders of the European Union

By Ignacio D. Rivera Elzaburu

European Case Law

  • 3D Shape Marks and Public Interest. The Boundary between Functional and Aesthetic Design. Stormy Weather ahead for Design Products?

By Menno J. Heerma van Vos

United States

  • Madrid Protocol: The U.S. Perspective

By Paul Fields and Karin Segall

NEWSLETTER NO. 47 - May 2003.

CONTENTS:

The Implementation of Directive 98/71 on the Legal Protection of Designs in National Law

  • Greece

By Maria Kilimiris

Conversion of Community Trademarks into National Trademarks

  • Ireland

By Peter MacLachlan

  • Sweden

By Maria Nyrell

European Case Law

  • The Registration of non-traditional Trade Marks in the European Union: Seven Recent Decisions of the European Court of Justice (including the Court of First Instance) cases

By David Stone

  • Colours as Community Trademarks - Two recent Judgements of the Court of First Instance: "Shade of Orange (Case T - 173/00) and "Green/Grey (Case T - 316/00)

By Yvonne Draheim

Austria

  • Present Status of Austrian Trademark Law Practice and Jurisdiction.

By Franz Matschnig

Book Review

  • Community Design Law. Principles and Practice.

Author: David Musker By Bernard Posner