Battle Of The Baronial Bottles; Temperature Rises To Freezing Point

Battle of the Baronial Bottles

Yesterday the Court of First Instance of the European Communities posted its ruling inwards Case T-323/03, La Baronia de Turis, Cooperativa Valenciana v OHIM. This was an appeal against the refusal of the OHIM Second Board of Appeal inwards Case R 57/2003-2 to permit its opposition to the registration every bit a Community merchandise score of the words LA BARONNIE, filed past times Baron Philippe de Rothschild SA for products inwards Class 33 (wine). La Baronia cited its before Castilian merchandise score BARONIA for alcoholic beverages other than beers, argument that in that place was a likelihood of confusion.

The CFI's conclusion appears solely inwards French, which is a compassion because it looks similar an interesting one. Can anyone delight tell the IPKat what has happened? Merpel says, me too!

La Baronia de Turis website here (this is a must-visit experience)
Baron Philippe de Rothschild SA website here
More Baronia merchandise marks here too here


Temperature rises to freezing point

That IPKat thank yous Simon Haslam (Abel & Imray) for pointing him towards the exceptional on BBC news concerning British Phonographic Industry's request to ISPs Tiscali too Cable & Wireless to freeze the accounts of 59 subscribers who are reputed to live on the worst-offending file-sharers of recordings owned past times BPI members.

To date, BPI has taken legal activeness inwards 139 filesharing cases. Four direct keep gone to courtroom alongside BPI the winner; around other 111 individuals having settled out of court.

thinks it's ironical that, to plough upwardly the oestrus on copyright infringers, the BPI has to instruct their accounts frozen. Merpel says, cry back the days when it wasn't idea feasible to expire along against individuals ...

What just is file-sharing? Click here
What the Electronic Frontier Foundation says here
How to disable file-sharing here