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Logic of International Law
7 December 2022On 14 and 15 November 2022, UM’s Faculty of Law held the “Logic of International Law Conference.” Henrique Marcos (UM & São Paulo Univ.) and Antonia Waltermann (UM) organised the conference under the auspices of the Globalization and Law Network (GLaw-Net) and the International Law Discussion Group (ILDG). The idea of the conference was to bring together scholars from public international law and from legal theory and legal logic to interact and discuss theoretical issues of international legal reasoning with one another. -
Cross-border structures and integration essential for the future of border regions
5 December 2022"It is vital to move from networks to cross-border structures. In addition to vertical integration from the EU, we need to work together on horizontal integration as a structure that connects neighbouring countries to put border obstacles and opportunities on the agenda, analyse them and come to common future perspectives." -
The ambigous nature of the amended European trademark functionality doctrine
25 November 2022EU trade mark law excludes certain signs from becoming registered trade marks. In particular, shapes cannot be registered if they are necessary for achieving a technical result. In 2015, the amended Regulation broadened this exclusion to ‘another characteristics'. But what is now covered exactly? -
GI protection against evocation: a broad protection similar to reputed European trademark protection?
15 November 2022In 2021, the CJEU held that the use of Champanillo for tapas bars evokes the geographical indication (GI) Champagne . The CJEU’s ruling marked a further step in extending GI protection against evocation, 22 years after the first evocation case .
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