Locals Too Estate Agents

Japanese merchandise marks

The Daily Yomiuri Online reports that Nippon is revising its merchandise score police trace adjacent month. From what the IPKat tin brand out, it volition straightaway hold upwards easier to register merchandise marks for local products which, confusingly, appear to hold upwards known equally ‘Community merchandise marks’. Any farther information would hold upwards welcomed.

Dutch databases

is grateful to Dirk Visser for tipping him off near the next Dutch case:

Zoekallehuizen.nl (”Searchforallhouses.nl”; ZAH) is a search engine, which searches virtually all websites of estate agents inwards Kingdom of the Netherlands for houses that are for sale on a daily footing as well as places the results of its search actions on its websites inwards the assort of deeplinks (www.zoekallehuizen.nl as well as www.zah.nl).

Two estate agents as well as the Dutch Association of Estate Agents (NVM) tried to choke an injunction against ZAH on the footing of database right, copyright as well as unlawful competition.

The president of the district courtroom of Arnhem denied the injunction inwards his sentence of sixteen March 2006. He ruled that the websites of the private estate agents did non present substantial investment as well as thus were non protected past times the database right, he too ruled that deep linking is allowed as well as that the texts accompanying the deep links were allowed nether the quotation right.

This is the offset conclusion inwards Kingdom of the Netherlands where the British Horse Racing Board conclusion of the ECJ is applied. Reference is too made to the German linguistic communication Paperboy-decision of the Bundesgerichtshof.

wonders if there've been many cases inwards which a database correct has been recognised next the ECJ's British Horseracing ruling.