Prof Avv Eleonora Rosati, PhD
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Prof Avv Eleonora Rosati, PhD
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Editorials and Case Comments
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Editorials
2024
- Should the EU Unify Copyright Laws? (2024) 19(8) JIPLP 621-622
- Mind the (Gender) Gap: Empowering Women in the IP Arena (2024) 7/2024 Alicante News
- The Green Advantage: IP's Role in Sustainable Branding (2024) 4/2024 Alicante News
- Too Artistic to Be Protected? Why the Artistic and Substantial Value of an Object are Not the Same Thing (2024) 19(4) JIPLP 279-280
- More than ‘Just’ IP: The Role and Advantages of GIs for Agricultural Products (2024) 3/2024 Alicante News
- The DSA’s Trusted Flaggers: Revolution, Evolution, or mere Gattopardismo? (22/02/2024) VerfBlog, DOI: 10.59704/37e9e89d5812f78a
- From Web 2 to Web 3: Harnessing Blockchain Technology for IP (2024) 2/2024 Alicante News
- From Videogame Characters to AI Avatars: An IP Story (2024) 1/2024 Alicante News
2023
- Duct-Taped Bananas and Copyright Absurdity (2023) 18(9) JIPLP 619-620
- The Very Visible Value of Intangible Assets: Why IP Valuation Matters (2023) 2/2023 Alicante News
- Cultural Heritage through the IP Lens (2023) 1/2023 Alicante News 1-3
2022
A Lawyer in the Kitchen: Food and IP Law (2022) 12/2022 Alicante News 1-3
IP and the Metaverse: New Problems, New Rules? (2022) 11/2022 Alicante News 1-3
Community Designs: A World of Cult Designs, Litigation … and New Challenges (2022) 10/2022 Alicante News 1-3
GIs for Craft and Industrial Products: Is the Finish Line in Sight? (2022) 9/2022 Alicante News 1-3
The Missing Link: How Blockchain Technology Can Help Protect IP Owners and Consumers (2022) 7/2022 Alicante News 1-3
From Food and Wine to… Textiles and Crafts: A Short History of GIs (2022) 6/2022 Alicante News 1-3
The DSM Directive Three Years On: Have We Found Our Digital Single Market Yet? (2022) 17(5) JIPLP 397-398
Young (IP) Love: Why and How IP Matters for the Youth (2022) 5/2022 Alicante News 1-3
- Women Making and Shaping IP: Creators, Inventors, Designers, Advocates … and More (2022) 4/2022 Alicante News 1-3
- Past Meets Present: How AI is Helping Shape the Future of IP (and Vice Versa) (2022) 3/2022 Alicante News 1-2
- Consumers Online: The Empirical Link between Influencers and the Purchase of Counterfeits (2022) 17(1) JIPLP 1-2
- Green with ... IP (2022) 1/2022 Alicante News 1-3
2021
- How Unconventional is 'Unconventional' IP? (2021) 12/2022 Alicante News 1-3
- Are Directives Good for the EU Internal Market? The Case of the Copyright DSM Directive and its National Transpositions (2021) 16(10) JIPLP 1027-1028
- Copyright in the Digital Single Market: A Taster (2021) 2021/4 WIPO Magazine 43-48
- The DSM Directive 2 Years On: Do Things Ever Get Easier? (2021) 52(9) IIC 1139-1142
- Happy 20th Birthday, InfoSoc Directive! (2021) 16(3) JIPLP 191-192
2020
- What’s in One’s Own Image (Right)? (2020) 15(1) JIPLP 1
2019
- Aesthetic Functionality and the EU Trade Mark System: The Substantial Value of the Substantial Value Absolute Ground (2019) 14(12) JIPLP 915-916
- Lost in (Mis-)Translation: When IP law Doesn’t Always Mean what It Says (2019) 14(8) JIPLP 587-588
- Copyright in CJEU Case Law: What Legacy? (2019) 14(2) JIPLP 79
2018
- Internal and External Control Mechanisms for Intellectual Property Rights: Between a Rock and a Hard Place? (2018) 1(2) Stockholm Intellectual Property Law Review 4
- The Year in EU Copyright: Is the Right Approach an Emotional Approach? (2018) 13(12) JIPLP 923
- Fashion and IP: In Search of the Perfect Fit (2018) 13(11) JIPLP 843
- Intermediaries and IP: 5 Key Principles of EU Law (2018) 16/2018 GRUR Prax 367-369
- Why Originality in Copyright is not and should not be a Meaningless Requirement (2018) 13(8) JIPLP 597-598
- An EU Text and Data Mining Exception for the Few: Would It Make Sense? (2018) 13(6) JIPLP 429-430
2017
- Why the CJEU Cheese Copyright Case is Anything but Cheesy (2017) 12(10) JIPLP 813-814
2016
- Brexit and UK Copyright: The Story of a Loss among All Other Losses (2016) 11(8) JIPLP 563-564
2015
- Are EU Policy-Makers Fighting the Right Copyright Battles? (2015) 10(9) JIPLP 651
- 2015: The Year of Blocking Injunctions? (2015) 10(3) JIPLP 147
2014
- Do Ask, Do Tell, Do Nothing: The EU Commission and All Those Copyright Consultations (2014) 9(10) JIPLP 785
- Luxembourg, We Have a Problem: Where Have the Advocates General Gone? (2014) 9(8) JIPLP 619
2013
- The German ‘Google Tax’ Law: Groovy or Greedy? (2013) 8(7) JIPLP 49 [cited in the US Copyright Office's 2022 Report on Copyright Protections for Press Publishers]
Case Comments
2021
- Tell me what you C: Chanel loses monogram battle against Huawei (2021) 16(6) JIPLP 458-459 (Chanel v EUIPO, T-44/20, EU:T:2021:207)
2020
- CJEU Rules that Notion of ‘Address’ in the Enforcement Directive is Limited to One’s Own Postal Address (2020) 15(1) JIPLP 779-781 (Constantin Film Verleih GmbH v YouTube LLC and Google Inc., C-264/19, EU:C:2020:542)
- Italian Supreme Court Applies CJEU Cofemel Decision to Makeup Store Layout (2020) 15(7) JIPLP 501-502 (Italian Supreme Court (Corte Suprema di Cassazione), Wycon S.p.A. v Kiko S.p.A., decision 780/2020)
- US Court Rules that Unlicensed Reproduction of NBA Players' Tattoos in Their Videogame Avatars is not a Copyright Infringement (2020) 15(5) JIPLP 318-319 (United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Solid Oak Sketches, LLC v 2K Games, Inc. and Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., 16-CV-724-LTS-SDA, 26 March 2020)
- Italian Court Rules against Dolce&Gabbana in a Case Concerning Unauthorized Use of Maradona’s Name on a Jersey (2020) 15(3) JIPLP 160 (Milan Court of First Instance, case 41088/2017, decision 11374/2019, 9 December 2019)
2019
- CJEU Limits Scope of De-Referencing in Right to be Forgotten Cases to the EU Territory, but Leaves the Door Open for National Global Orders (2019) 23 Media & Arts Law Review 307-309 (Google LLC, successor in law to Google Inc. v Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL), C-507/17, EU:C:2019:772)
- CJEU Rules that Copyright Protection for Designs Only Requires Sufficient Originality (2019) 14(12 JIPLP 931-932 (Cofemel – Sociedade de Vestuário SA v G-Star Raw CV, C-683/17, EU:C:2019:721)
- Targeting Accepted as a Criterion to Establish International Jurisdiction in Online EU Trade Mark Infringement Cases (2019) 14(12) JIPLP 926-927 (AMS Neve Ltd and Others v Heritage Audio SL and Pedro Rodríguez Arribas, C-172/18, EU:C:2019:674) [cited in Advocate General's Opinion in Acacia, C-421/20, EU:C:2021:886]
- General Court Finds 'CHIARA FERRAGNI' Not Confusingly Similar to 'CHIARA' (2019) 14(9) JIPLP 659-660 (Serendipity Srl and Others v EUIPO, T-647/17, EU:T:2019:73, 8 February 2019)
- CJEU Excludes Retroactive Application of Reformed Language of Article 7(1)(e)(iii) of the EU Trade Mark Regulation and Does Not Clarify What ‘Another Characteristic’ Means (2019) 14(8) JIPLP 590-592 (Textilis Ltd and Ozgur Keskin v Svenskt Tenn Aktiebolag, C-21/18, EU:C:2019:199, 14 March 2019)
- US Court Refuses to Grant Summary Judgment in Favour of Beyoncé over FEYONCÉ Products (2019) 14(1) JIPLP 8-10 (Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter, et al., v. Feyoncé, Inc. et al., 16-CV-2532 (AJN))
2018
- CJEU Rules on Standing of Collecting Societies and Safe Harbour Availability (2018) 13(12) JIPLP 937-939 (Coöperatieve Vereniging SNB-REACT U.A. v Deepak Mehta, C-521/17, EU:C:2018:639)
- UK Supreme Court Holds that Intermediaries Have to Bear No Costs of Injunctions Against Them (2018) 13(12) JIPLP 933-935 (Cartier International AG & Ors v British Telecommunications Plc & Anor [2018] UKSC 28 (13 June 2018))
- Milan Court Applies Nintendo v Big Ben in Fast Fashion Lawsuit against ZARA (2018) 13(11) JIPLP 856-857 (Tribunale di Milano, Diesel spa and Others v Zara Italia srl and Others, case No 22303/2016, decision No 5390/2018, 15 May 2018)
- Not Sufficiently 'Transformative' Appropriation of a Photograph Held Infringing by French Court (2018) 13(7) JIPLP 525-526 (Cour d’Appel de Versailles, Alix Malka v Peter Klasen, 1ère chamber 1ère section, RG No 15/06029, 16 March 2018)
- Milan Court Finds Trade Mark Infringement and Unfair Competition in Biscuit-Shaped Cushions (2018) 13(7) JIPLP 520-521 (Court of First Instance of Milan, Barilla G and Another v Italy Fashion srl and Another, decision 830/2018, 25 January 2018)
- AG Szpunar Confirms that There is a Way Out of Invalidation for the Louboutin Red Sole Trade Mark (2018) 13(7) JIPLP 518-520 (Opinion of Advocate General Maciej Szpunar in Christian Louboutin, Christian Louboutin SAS v Van Haren Schoenen BV, C-163/16, EU:C:2018:64)
- General Court Confirms that ‘La Mafia se Sienta a la Mesa’ Cannot Be a Trade Mark on Public Policy Grounds (2018) 13(6) JIPLP 432-434 (La Mafia Franchises, SL v European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), T‑1/17, not yet published, 15 March 2018)
2017
- Italian Supreme Court Confirms Eligibility of TV Formats for Copyright Protection (2017) 12(12) JIPLP 968-969 (RTI Reti Televisive Italiane Spa v Ruvido Produzioni Srl, decision 18633/17 (27 July 2017))
- Italian Supreme Court Rules that Mere Reproduction of Vespa Image May Amount to Counterfeiting (2017) 12(7) JIPLP 537-538 (Cassazione penale, 5th Section, 17 March 2017, No 13078)
- CJEU Clarifies Scope of ‘Access to Cable of Broadcasting Services’ in Article 9 of the InfoSoc Directive (2017) 12(6) JIPLP 457-459 (ITV Broadcasting Limited and Others v TVCatchup Limited (in administration), C-275/15, EU:C:2017:144)
2016
- Arnold J Rules that Shape of KitKat Chocolate Bar Cannot Be Registered as a Trade Mark (2016) 11(8) JIPLP 577-578 (Société des Produits Nestlé SA v Cadbury UK Ltd [2016] EWHC 50 (Ch))
- CJEU Links Fair Compensation in Articles 5(2)(a) and (b) of the InfoSoc Directive to Actual Harm Requirement (2016) 11(3) JIPLP 167-170 (Hewlett-Packard Belgium SPRL v Reprobel SCRL, Epson Europe BV intervening, C-572/13, EU:C:2015:750)
- General Court Says that Extended Passing Off may Prevent Trade Mark Registration (2016) 11(2) JIPLP 79-80 (Tilda Riceland Private Ltd v Office for Harmonisation in Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM), T-136/14,EU:T:2015:734)
- CJEU Says that Mere Recognition/Association is not Sufficient to Prove Acquired Distinctiveness (2016) 11(2) JIPLP 77-79 (Société des Produits Nestlé SA v Cadbury UK Ltd, C-215/14,EU:C:2015:604)
2015
- Beatles Documentary Reproducing Twelve Songs in their Entirety is not Fair Use (2015) 10(10) JIPLP 736-737 (Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC & Another v WPMC Ltd & Another [2015] EWHC 1853 (Ch))
- High Court Issues Blocking Order against Popcorn Time (2015) 10(8) JIPLP 585-586 (Twentieth Century Fox and Others v Sky UK Limited and Others [2015] EWHC 1082 (Ch))
- CJEU Says that Unauthorised Hyperlinks to Live TV Broadcasts Are Not Infringements Under the InfoSoc Directive (2015) 10(8) JIPLP 582-583 (C More Entertainment AB v Linus Sandberg, C-279/13, EU:C:2015:199)
- CJEU Says that Copyright Exhaustion only Applies to the Tangible Support of a Work (2015) 10(5) JIPLP 329-330 (Art & Allposters International BV v Stichting Pictoright, C-419/13, EU:C:2015:27)
- CJEU Rules on Notion of Parody (But It Will Not Be Funny for National Courts) (2015) 10(2) JIPLP 80-82 (Johan Deckmyn and Another v Helena Vandersteen and Others, C-201/13, EU:C:2014:2132)
- OSA (the Czech Spa case): Article 102 TFEU as a Means to Attack Excessive Copyright Fees of Collecting Societies? (2015) 6(2) JECLAP 96-97 (OSA – Ochranný svaz autorský pro práva k dílům hudebním os v Léčebné lázně Mariánské Lázně as, C-351/12, EU:C:2014:110)
- CJEU Says that Member States May Grant Public Libraries the Right to Digitise Works in their Collections (2015) 10(1) JIPLP 6-8 (Technische Universität Darmstadt v Eugen Ulmer KG, C-117/13, EU:C:2014:2196)
2014
- CJEU Rules that Private Copying Exception May Only Apply to Reproductions from Licensed Sources (2014) 9(9) JIPLP 710-711 (ACI Adam BV and Others v Stichting de Thuiskopie and Stichting Onderhandelingen Thuiskopie vergoeding, C-435/12, EU:C:2014:254)
- CJEU on Communication to the Public and National Systems of Collective Rights Management (2014) 9(8) JIPLP 630-631 (OSA – Ochranný svaz autorský pro práva k dílům hudebním os v Léčebné lázně Mariánské Lázně as, C-351/12, EU:C:2014:110)
- Google Books Library Project is Fair Use (2014) 9(2) JIPLP 104-106 (The Authors Guild, Inc v Google Inc, USDC SDNY 05 Civ 8136 (DC), 14 November 2013)
- Brussels I Regulation and Online Copyright Infringement: ‘Intention to Target’ Approach Rejected (2014) 9(1) JIPLP 18-19 (Peter Pinckney v KDG Mediatech AG, C-170/12, EU:C:2013:635) [cited in Advocate General's Opinion in Concurrence, C-618/15, EU:C:2016:843]
2013
- US Supreme Court Holds First Sale Doctrine Applicable to Works Lawfully Made Abroad (2013) 8(8) JIPLP 590-591 (Kirtsaeng v John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 568 US __ (2013))
- Amazon’s Use of Term “Appstore” is not Deceptive (2013) 8(7) JIPLP 511-512 (Apple Inc v Amazon.com Inc, No C 11-1327 PJH (N D Cal, Jan 2, 2013))
- First Circuit Applies Idea/Expression Dichotomy and Originality to News Photographs (2013) 8(5) JIPLP 356-357 (Donald A Harney v Sony Pictures Television, Inc, and A&E Television Networks, LLC, No 11-1760 (1st Cir, Jan 7, 2013))
2012
- Exhaustion also Applies to First Sale of Downloaded Software (2012) 7(11) JIPLP 786-788 (UsedSoft GmbH v Oracle International Corp, C-128/11, EU:C:2012:407)
- US District Court Explains Idea/Expression Dichotomy in Videogames (2012) 7(10) JIPLP 713-714 (Tetris Holding, LLC and The Tetris Company, LLC v Xio Interactive, LLC, USDC D New Jersey, 30 May 2012)
- ECJ Interprets InfoSoc Exception for Ephemeral Recordings (2012) 7(8) JIPLP 557-559 (DR and TV2 Danmark v NCB, C-510/10, EU:C:2012:244
- On Netlog, ACTA and the Scope of IPR Injunctions in the EU (2012) 2(3) QMJIP 297-304 (SABAM v Netlog, C-360/10, EU:C:2012:85)
- US Supreme Court Says Public Domain Works May Return to Copyright (2012) 7(4) JIPLP 238-239 (Golan v Holder, 565 US __ (2012))
2011
- Yahoo! Liable for Contributory Infringement by Display of Links to Infringing Websites (2011) 6(8) JIPLP 521-523 (Tribunale di Roma, PFA Films Srl v Google Italy, Microsoft Srl and Yahoo! Italia Srl, ordinanza 20 March 2011)
- Relighting a Lamp: The CJEU on Revived Protection for Expired Design Rights (2011) 384 ITMA Review 14-16 (Flos v Semeraro Casa e Famiglia, C-168/09, EU:C:2011:29)
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