“Commercial Awareness Is Global.”
By: Omar Ha- Redeye and posted on Slaw on March 23, 2010. Luxury good maker Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH), who produces Moet & Chandon champagne and Dior perfume, claimed that Google’s advertising polices violated their trademark. The practice in question was the use of key words related to brand names by counterfeiters, who would then link to online stores. Based on
By: Ainsley Brown This forms part of the Middle Passage Law Series on Law Is Cool. American International Group, better know by its acronym AIG, it seems these days can rarely catch a break. It just seems negative news follows negative news for this company. This time the negative news for this too big to fail company – deeply wounded
By: Ainsley Brown When it comes to the hype around a new product no body does it better than Apple. In fact you could even say that Apple has made the hype surrounding a new product a large part of its advertising and marketing campaign. However, the key to such marketing is maintaining such levels of secrecy that would make
First posted on Law is Cool on Jan 9, 2010. This is a blog post by current University of Western Ontario third year law student and Law is Cool blogger, John Magyar that I just had to share. It is a perfect illustraion of why here at Commercial Law International we say that: Commercial Awareness Is Global. The story featured in the post is
By: Ainsley Brown “Old pirates, yes they rob I.” The opening words to Redemption Song are as hard hitting now as they were when first bellowed by the iconic musical legend – Bob Marley – years ago. These words however may be taking on a new meaning in this era digitization and globalization where information is king. This era is
By: Ainsley Brown Under a British Columbian Court of Appeal ruling Canada’s Most Reliable Network has gotten the boot – well the ad at least. Rogers Communications Inc., the Canadian telephone, internet and cable company, that advertised as Canada’s Most Reliable Network has been told by the B.C. Court of Appeal that it has to drop the Most in its
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 Jamaica is set to hire global legal giant Baker & MacKenzie (Baker) as its consultant on its new International Financial Centre (IFC). The deal, the details of which are still immerging, is subject to Cabinet approval and would see Baker advising the Jamaican government on the best ways to implement the IFC in this current economic climate.
By: Ainsley Brown The cosmetics giant, L’Oreal, seeks to expand in the largely untapped African market – or I should say African markets, as the continent is made up of many individual national and regional markets. I must say that I find this a very interesting business strategy by a global titian. There is also, I must admit a touch