Volksanwaltschaft: Budgetengpass ab 2017 befürchtet

Date of article: 14/05/2014

Daily News of: 14/05/2014

Country:  Austria

Author: Austrian Ombudsman Board

Article language: de

Die Volksanwaltschaft werde ihre Aufgaben mit den vorgeschlagenen Budgets für 2014 und 2015 in der gleichen Qualität wie bisher erfüllen können. Ab 2017, wenn alle Rücklagen aufgelöst sind, seien aber Probleme zu befürchten, teilte Volksanwalt Günther Kräuter am 13. Mai dem Budgetausschuss des Nationalrats mit.

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Advocate General Maciej Szpunar considers that EU law precludes registration as trade marks of shapes which result from the functionality of the goods and shapes whose aesthetic characteristics determine the attractiveness of the goods concerned

Date of article: 14/05/2014

Daily News of: 14/05/2014

Country:  EUROPE

Author: Court of Justice of the European Union

Article language: en

Reserving the benefit of such shapes to a single operator amounts to allowing that operator to obtain an unfair advantage on the market, thereby undermining the objective of trade mark protection

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