“Commercial Awareness Is Global.”
By: Ainsley Brown Imagine being told that you could no long buy a BlackBerry or being told that the services of the one you already own will be restricted, just imagine. Think it can’t happen; well think again for this has now entered the range of possibility in the United States. The Canadian company, Research In Motion Ltd (RIM), the
By: Ainsley Brown EBay was fined yesterday €1.7 million by the Paris Commercial for violating an injunction prohibiting the sale of LVMH products on the online auction site. The injunction was imposed on eBay last year after it was taking to court by LVMH for allowing the sale of its products on its site. LVMH, the world’s largest luxury good
By: Ainsley Brown A 47 year old former engineer from the Ford Motor Company has been charged with stealing some of the company’s trade secrets. The engineer, a one Xiang Dong Yu, also known as Mike Yu, was charged last week after traveling from China to the US. Mr. Yu is accused of unauthorized computer access; theft, and attempted theft
By: Ainsley Brown Anheuser-Busch, along with Labatt Brewing Co – both companies are owned by Anheuser-Busch Inbev NV – have filed suit against Brick Brewing Co claiming that Brick is violating its intellectual property. The dispute centers on the use of the colour green and limes on the labels of Brick’s Red Baron Lime Beer. Anheuser, the maker of Budweiser,
By: Ainsley Brown The Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis has launched suit in the English High Court against Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK) claiming that GSK has violated its intellectual property. This new action is far from being the opening salvos of this drug war; the two have already locked horns over the same matter. GSK last year sued Novartis in both
By: Ainsley Brown First France, now the UK. The L´Oreal v eBay counterfeiting war goes on with yet another victory for eBay, this time in the English High Court. In L´Oreal Takes eBay To Court I mused: While I will admit that I do not have the full particulars of the case, I just have a feeling that L’Orèal is
By: Ainsley Brown This is a follow up to: L´Oreal Takes eBay To Court. The pending court case launched in France by L´Oreal against eBay is now in. And it is not good news for L´Oreal. A French court ruled that eBay has sufficient anti-counterfeit measures in place to prevent fake L´Oreal and other branded products from being sold on
By: Ainsley Brown I have been wanting to do an Australian themed story for a long time, not least because of the global mandate of the site but also I am just a big fan of the land of Auz – I guess it´s just the rugby player in me but truth be told I am a bigger fan of
By: Ainsley Brown Tate & Lyle, the makers of Splenda, lost its appeal last week in the US International Trade Commission (ITC) in its bid to keep out an imported Chinese substitute to Splenda. The company initiated legal action in April of 2007 against a group of Chinese companies and six importers, after non-Splenda sucralose began appearing in the US
By: Ainsley Brown It is an understatement to say that the English take their tea very seriously. And it is little wonder why a small teashop in Surrey, England, even when faced with potential financial ruin, would not back down from a much larger German multinational. This is a tale about tea better yet teapots; a David and a Goliath;