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21/07/2010 New Country Manager appointed in Germany
Mr Hajo Peters is appointed Country Manager for our office (Albihns.Zacco) in Munich, Germany as of July 15th. Hajo Peters is a European as well as a German Patent Attorney dealing mostly with cases from the life science area including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, biotechnology but also in general ...Click here to continue

07/06/2010 Mega domain name case in Belgium
EURid, the European Registry of Internet Domain Names, is embroiled in a legal battle involving more than 10,000 .eu domain names. EURid wants to withdraw the names, which it claims have been registered in bad faith. www.bentleymotors.eu In April 2006, a London resident, Qingying Zengh, registered 10,200 ...Click here to continue

07/06/2010 Apple bites HTC in patent suit
Apple has filed a lawsuit against the Taiwanese High Tech Computer Corp (HTC), maker of Google’s Nexus One Phone. Apple is claiming that HTC has infringed 20 of its US patents. Shift movement The patents cover the technology used in the finger-swipe unlocking mechanisms for mobile phones (activated by ...Click here to continue

07/06/2010 Dispute over Marmite
Consumer brand manufacturer Unilever is unhappy about an ad produced by the British National Party (BNP) featuring a jar of Marmite, a trademark marketed by the Anglo-Dutch firm. Legal action In an article which appeared on the BBC website, Unilever announced it was considering legal action against the ...Click here to continue

21/05/2010 EPO Practice on Patentability for Computer Implemented Inventions Clarified
On 12 May 2010 the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office issued an opinion on the patentability of computer programs (case number G3/08). In the fifty-five page opinion, the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) confirms the established practice of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent ...Click here to continue

22/04/2010 Zacco's Lone Prehn winner of the ILO Client Choice Awards 2010
The winners of the ILO Client Choice Awards 2010 have just been announced and we are delighted to inform you that Lone Prehn at our office in Hellerup is the exclusive winner of the Intellectual Property category for Denmark. Lone is one of the individual winners chosen in 48 jurisdictions worldwide.  Unlike ...Click here to continue

07/04/2010 Multimate yields to IKEA
Home products retailer Multimate has been ordered to redesign its logo and house style following infringement of its rival IKEA’s trademark rights. The ruling was issued on 26 January by the Court of Appeal in The Hague in response to an appeal lodged by IKEA. Appeal In August 2006 the district court ...Click here to continue

07/04/2010 Gandhi vs Mont Blanc
Pen manufacturer Mont Blanc has fallen foul of India’s Centre for Consumer Education (CCE) regarding the use of a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi for a “limited edition” of one of its fountain pens. Mont Blanc is hoping to market its Gandhi pen for nearly € 16,000. Pretext of veneration The CCE has now filed ...Click here to continue

07/04/2010 Waveboards patent infringed
Alcom Computer Products BV must immediately suspend sales of its waveboards, since the technology it uses infringes the patent rights of the US skateboard company Street Surfing, according to a preliminary injunction issued on 2 December 2009 by a court in The Hague. Pivoting wheels Street Surfing has ...Click here to continue

25/02/2010 Zacco in the top tiers of MIP survey for 2010
Once again Zacco is elected in the top tiers in Managing Intellectual Property’s (MIP) early IP survey. MIP’s survey of the world’s IP markets provides a unique perspective on IP practice, based on hundreds of interviews with clients and practitioners worldwide. This is the 14th survey and as in the ...Click here to continue

18/12/2009 Zacco new service provider for patent annuities
To our clients, This information pertains only to clients and any patents or patent applications that prior to the Albihns and Zacco merger was handled by a Zacco office. The information has no relevance for any patents or patent applications that was handled by Albihns prior to the merger. Furthermore, ...Click here to continue

12/06/2009 Two of the largest European Intellectual Property Law Firms, Albihns and Zacco, merge
Zacco and Albihns announced today that that they have signed an agreement signifying that two of the leading IP firms in Europe will be one as of July 1st, 2009. This is a further step in the Zacco Group expansion and implies that Zacco’s mother company in Denmark formally buys Albihns through a share ...Click here to continue

05/04/2009 Zacco elected as a top firm in MIP’s Patent & Trademark survey for 2009
The IP survey consists of rankings of the leading firms practising intellectual property in each country, presented in tiers. The total number of firms listed in each jurisdiction varies according to the size of the market. Zacco has been ranked in the tier 1 for trademark prosecution in Denmark, Norway, ...Click here to continue

02/04/2009 Scandinavian IP Law Review 2008 is now available
Scandinavian IP law Review is an annual review of the most important decisions in national Danish, Norwegian and Swedish intellectual property law published by Zacco on a complimentary basis. The 5th issue of Scandinavian IP Law Review is now available here: Scandinavian IP Law Review 08. For previous ...Click here to continue

01/03/2009 Zacco is sponsoring an innovation competition in Denmark
The competition's purpose is to encourage creativity and innovation for inventors and smaller companies to create focus and contribution to research and development for new products, processes, concepts and improvements of existing products. For further information see; http://www.startvaekst.dk Click here to continue

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