Eek! It's The Ecc

Once to a greater extent than the Sweet & Maxwell serial European Commercial Cases continues to jump surprises past times featuring English-language reports of intellectual belongings decisions from continental Europe -- fifty-fifty if about of those decisions induce got exceed away somewhat elderly. has only received Part ii of the ECC for 2005, which includes

* Pharma Intranet Information AG v IMS Health GmbH (Frankfurt Court of Appeal, 2002), on copyright too contest issues arising out of the commercial exploitation of databases;

* Re Copyright inward Road Construction Materials Handbooks (Bundesgerichtshof, Germany, 2002), on copyight inward boringly functional authorities publications;

* Tenenbaum v Petraco Distribution Sarl (Cour de Cassation, Paris), a 2003 instance which takes a await at graphical reproduction rights inward musical works;

Renault: no stranger to the courts when it comes to IP enforcement

* Renault v Franco d'Amato (Cour de Cassation, Paris, 2002), a criminal police conclusion on fakes too complimentary campaign of goods.

Details of the European Commercial Cases here.