Around the IP blogs!

JIPLP is the weblog of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice. Here's where editorial panellists, readers and contributors can come together and share their view on all aspects of IP law and practice. And here are the Author’s Takes of August 2017:

The Author's Take. 📷✍️📚

Putting a Face to the Game: The Intellectual Property Implications of Using Celebrity Likenesses in Videogames

by Yin Harn Lee

Lecturer in Law, University of Sheffield

Louboutin v Van Haren - AG Szpunar’s position on Louboutin’s red sole mark: a shoo-in for a shape mark

by Luxmi (“Lux”) Rajanayagam

Queen Mary, University of London

Stella McCartney v IMAX Srl - The protection of the ‘eco-friendly’ Falabella bag by Stella McCartney in a recent decision of the Court of First Instance of Milan

by Mario Pozzi

Roedl&Partner Law Firm, Milan – Italy

Kluwer Trademark Blog

Denmark: Left without a smoking design gun? There might be a way out…

In this post, Lasse Søndergaard Christensen and Louise Thorning Ahle analyze the possibilities of enforcement with regard to products protected as neither a registered nor an unregistered Community design on the Danish market.

Trademark licensing, no need to control?

In the recent decision W.F. Gözze Frottierweberei Gmbh, Wolfgang Gözze GmbH v Verein Bremer Baumwollbörse, case C-689/15, the European Court of Justice analyzes an issue which the EUTMR rules do not clearly resolve, i.e. whether or not a licensed EUTM registration may be invalidated if the owner fails to carry out quality controls on licensee/licensees’ products.

MARQUES Class 46

In Close Thais with Madrid, as from November, MARQUES reproduces the official WIPO notice regarding the accession by the Kingdom of Thailand to the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks.

Photo courtesy of Mr. He Gong and his lovely kitten Ruobai.