NIPC Law

Author Sadarama   Licence CC BY-SA 4.0   Source Wikimedia Commons   Oma strickt Strümpfe (Grandmother knits stockings)   Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (HH Judge Hacon)  Crafts Group LLC v Indeutsch International and another [2023] EWHC 1455 (IPEC) (16 June 2023) This was an application by Indeutsch International and Knitpro International for a stay of claims that had been brought against them in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court by the Crafts Group LLC to abide the outcome of cancellation proceedings in the EU Intellectual Property Office.   The application was based on art 132 (1) of   Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2017 on the European Union trade mark (codification)(Text with EEA relevance. ) OJ L 154, 16.6.2017, p. 1–99 ("the EU Trade Mark Regulation")  and CPR 3.1 (2) (f) . The Litigation On 11 Dec 2020 Crafts Group LLC issued proceedings agai...

Jane Lambert A press release issued by the Dubai International Financial Centre Courts caught my eye with the headline "Designer Courts" . It referred to a cooperation agreement between the Dubai Design and Fashion Council and the Dubai Dispute Resolution Authority which was signed on 15 March 2017 "to pave the way for wider adoption of the English language, international law courts system by Dubai’s fast-developing design and fashion sector."    More

Gulf Cooperation Council Authors Iraqiblioggers Licence Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4 International Source Wikipedia Jane Lambert While British departure from the EU on 29 March 2019 may not be a racing certainty with growing calls for a second referendum it is still very likely. British businesses need to look for alternative markets and one with which the UK has very close commercial, diplomatic and cultural links are the Arabic speaking states on the shores of the Arabian (or, if you prefer, Persian) Gulf. Six of those states have formed a political and economic union known as The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf which is generally abbreviated to Gulf Cooperation Council or "GCC".  Those states are Bahrain. Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.  The combined population of those states is just over 54 million (33 million of whom are Saudi nationals).  The states' combined land area is...

WIPO Head Office, Geneva  Author Emmanuel Berrod Licence  CC BY-SA 4.0   Source Flickr Jane Lambert This is the first of a series of articles on domain name disputes. Schemes for the rapid resolution of domain name disputes such as ICANN's  UDRP (Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy ), Nominet's Dispute Resolution Service ( "DRS" ) and the Czech Court of Arbitration's ".euADR"  are probably the most successful use of alternative dispute resolution ( "ADR" ) on the planet and the topic is important for that reason alone. It is also important because such schemes are probably indispensable for the rapid development of the Internet.  It is inconceivable that businesses would have invested anything that the that they have on the development of on-line platforms for the delivery of many sorts of services without a quick and cheap method of domain name dispute resolution. My Qualifications and Experience I have been int...