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FR- CORE v. LG

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Article published in European Patent Lawyers Association and written by Axelle Collin and Catherine Mateu, lawyers at Armengaud Guerlain.

 

Core Wireless Licensing (“Core”) asserted five patents related to UTMS, GSM, GPRS, EGPRS and LTE against LG Electronics France (“LGEF”) and LG Electronics Inc. (“LGEI”). In a ruling dated 17 April 2015, the Paris Court of First Instance ruled that none of the patents were essential to the standards and dismissed Core’s claims.

 

In a motion presented during the appeal proceedings, LGEF and LGEI requested the disclosure of the documents, namely the agreements between Core and the previous owners of the patents and those between Nokia and Qualcomm, as well as all the attachments. The defendants aimed to verify whether Core was the owner of the asserted patents, to establish an exhaustion of rights and to determine whether the patents were pledged in order to assess the FRAND rate.

 

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Trade Dress : International Practice and Procedures

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Article written by Catherine Mateu, lawyer at Armengaud & Guerlain and published in ITWA’s bulletin of november 2011.

 

The red sole shoe saga, or the Louboutin cases, which will soon be accessible in INTA’s Trade Dress Image Library (TDIL), is an illustration of how trade dress law raises similar issues around the world. When it comes to trade dress, however, IP practitioners often are reluctant to have a first opinion or first thoughts on trade dress, as it involves many IP rights (explained in INTA’s online resource Trade Dress: International Practice and Procedures) and has enormous cultural implications, particularly in assessments of distinctiveness, likelihood of confusion and functionality.

 

First thoughts on clearing or giving advice about trade dress can come from the TDIL. This resource is accessible by INTA members only, either from the Topic Portal page on Trade Dress or from the Global Trademark Research page. The TDIL comprises a database of summaries of trade dress cases, with images of the goods of the plaintiff and defendant in each case.

 

(See, for example, QB Net Co Ltd v. Earnson Management (S) Pte Ltd & Others, a Singapore case concerning a hair salon, pictured). Research can be performed based on product description, jurisdiction, key concept, case name, plaintiff’s name or defendant’s name. The results will show a list of cases with links to case summaries, corresponding images and the name of the firm that provided the summary and images.

 

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New opportunities for the profession, and for women

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Much has been written about the patent litigation of the patent package. This type of litigation has always been a man’s business. However, some changes are happening and the women have prove their worth in this speciality.

 

Catherine Mateu, lawyer at Armengaud & Guerlain explains through her article published in Euromoney Institutional Investor these opportunities brought by women in the profession.

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