In accordance with decision no. 4352 published on 08/04/2015, the Court of Milan, in Collegial Composition, Section specialized in the field of enterprise, stated that the relevant pre-divulgation for the purposes of art. 46 c.p.i. is the one generalized and open to any interested or the general public.
Continue Reading
WIPO, the global forum for intellectual property services, policy, information and cooperation agency of the United Nations, self-founded by 193 member states, has settled the disputation Case No. D2013-0298 between Google Inc. of Mountain View, California, United States of America and Google Adwords Service at HCMC, Vietnam of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on the matter of the domain name “google-vietnam.com” as registered with eNom.
Continue Reading
In a ruling considered unprecedented and unique in the matter, the Court of Milan – Enterprise Matter Section, on 23 April 2020 settled on a case of compensation damages by ambush marketing, awarding to the applicant a sum of 1,800,000 euros over interest, for having been damaged by the illegal and anti-competitive conduct of its competitor.
Continue Reading
Google Maps is an indispensable tool to search for a road or address in a city that you do not know. Thanks to this system it’s possible to bring maps and real-time traffic information to your smartphone.
Continue Reading
Google and Local Lighthouse settled an agreement for the last to stop making robocalls to Google My Business users and costumers. Google received thousands of complaints from users complaining that Local Lighthouse, a SEO based in Tustin, California, were making unsolicited robocalls offering services and claiming to be affiliated to Google.
Continue Reading
On 2017 January, 23 the Consultative Committee of the Convention on the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data, also known as Convention n. 108, has issued the Guidelines on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data in a world of big data.
Continue Reading
In order to end legal proceedings before Irish High Court for trademark infringement, Ryanair on October 2017 reached a settlement with search engine Google and online travel agency eDreams. The case started in 2015 over alleged misleading and deceptive search advertisements for Ryanair flights.
Continue Reading
With decision issued on June, 19 2014 among Alice Corporation PTY Ltd v. CLS Bank International et al., the United States Supreme Court has affirmed the judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
It holds the principle that abstract ideas implementable on a generic computer, are invalid to be transformed into patentable subject matter.
Continue Reading
On February 2017, the judge of County of Hennepin, State of Minnesota, grants an application for a warrant to search filed by Detective Lindman of Edina Police Department.
The warrant is directed to search for any or all user or subscriber information related to the Google searches of the victim’s name and last name, three variations included, for the timeframe of December 1st, 2016, through January 7th, 2017.
Continue Reading
AOL has recently settled its largest lawsuit prompted by the block of volunteers that performed online services for it during 1990s within the Community Leader Program. The program was ended by AOL in 2005 following US Department of Labor investigation.
Continue Reading