Landmark ip decisions of the european court of justice : 2008-2013

As in other fields of the law, in recent years many essential issues relating to Intellectual Property law have been resolved by important decisions of the European Court of Justice. This book contains over forty landmark decisions with respect to copyright, trade marks, databases and design rights, as ruled upon by the European Court of Justice in recent years.

Authors

Harmonisation of IP law and the creation of the biggest single market in the world has brought both opportunities and threats. A field in which harmonisation of IP law is pre-eminent, is customs surveillance on counterfeiting. In 2008 the CAPIP member firms understood the opportunities and created a unique coalition of 24 law firms with offices in 35 European jurisdictions to fight counterfeiting side by side with customs authorities.

This cooperation 'in practice' and the shared interest in the further harmonisation of IP laws has led to this book, the first of a series, providing inside views on the most important IP decisions of the European Court of Justice in recent years.

As each decision gives the answers to specific questions related to a dispute before a national court in a particular Member State, the editors have, as much as possible, looked for authors within CAPIP who are familiar with the relevant national jurisdiction, to summarise and analyse the decisions. Such authors know their legal system and are best placed to explain the history of the national case, as they can read the original language in which the dispute has arisen.

Editors

Peter Claassen studied law at Nijmegen University where he obtained his Masters degree. In addition Peter obtained an LLM degree at Miami Law School. Peter is a partner at AKD (the Netherlands) and chairs the IP&T practice group. He has been involved in a great number of complicated and ground breaking proceedings going up to the European Court of Justice.

Jeff Keustermans is a member of the Brussels and the New York Bar. He studied law in Antwerp, Leuven and Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.). Jeff is head of the IP/IT Department of & De Bandt advocaten | avocats in Brussels, and a guest lecturer at various universities. He has published over 50 articles and several books on Belgian and European law relating to IP and IT law.