“Commercial Awareness Is Global.”
By: Ainsley Brown First France, now the UK. The L´Oreal v eBay counterfeiting war goes on with yet another victory for eBay, this time in the English High Court. In L´Oreal Takes eBay To Court I mused: While I will admit that I do not have the full particulars of the case, I just have a feeling that L’Orèal is
By: Ainsley Brown This is a follow up to: L´Oreal Takes eBay To Court. The pending court case launched in France by L´Oreal against eBay is now in. And it is not good news for L´Oreal. A French court ruled that eBay has sufficient anti-counterfeit measures in place to prevent fake L´Oreal and other branded products from being sold on
By: Ainsley Brown Injunction, injunction, what´s your function? Sorry I just could not resist. Despite my lame attempts at a joke, it is a very valid question. What is the function of an injunction? It is a power whereby the court may order positive action be taken or an order to refrain from acts being currently done. It may be
By: Ainsley Brown The claims advanced by Olint, though ultimately would proven to be groundless is very important because it, gave us a brief glimpse into the subtleties of judicial politics. Before I go any further some context by way of an example I believe would be useful. The words with all due respect, seem quite mundane or you could
By: Ainsley Brown The House of Lords, with its Judicial Council of the Privy Council hat on, as Jamaica´s court of final appeal, handed down a judgment that is set to have repercussions well beyond the interests of the parties involved. In fact the consequences of his judgment go beyond just banking or investing but engages commercial dispute resolution, specifically
By: Ainsley Brown I have been wanting to do an Australian themed story for a long time, not least because of the global mandate of the site but also I am just a big fan of the land of Auz – I guess it´s just the rugby player in me but truth be told I am a bigger fan of
By: Ainsley Brown Linklaters can now breath a huge sigh of relief has it got only what can be only called a light tap on the wrist – to say a slap would be too harsh- by being order to pay £5. That was not a type o, there are no zeros behind that 5. A former client of the firm,
By: Ainsley Brown Tate & Lyle, the makers of Splenda, lost its appeal last week in the US International Trade Commission (ITC) in its bid to keep out an imported Chinese substitute to Splenda. The company initiated legal action in April of 2007 against a group of Chinese companies and six importers, after non-Splenda sucralose began appearing in the US
By: Ainsley Brown The US securities regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has extended its long arm yet again. This time it was as a part of an operation to locate and then freeze the personal and company assets of Sir Allen Stanford and his Stanford International Bank (SIB). Mr. Stanford – oh sorry I should say Sir Allen
By: Ainsley Brown It is situations like these that simply go to fuel the general public distain for multinational. I guess the one positive thing that comes out of this and other similar situations is that it provides ample material for Michael Moore– esque films – just great entertainment. Despite the entertainment value of such films they often depict the