31st January 2006 | marketinglaw

Tribunal clarifies grievance procedure triggers
Written Osborne Clarke on 31 Jan 2006
It’s crucial that an employer knows when an employee is initiating grievance procedures, so a recent case suggesting this can be happening when you might not necessarily expect it has…
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Sponsors’ credits anomaly
Written Osborne Clarke on 31 Jan 2006
A recent verdict by Ofcom on misleading sponsor’s credits in a radio broadcast begged the question of why these advertising messages are outside the UK’s broadcast ad pre-vetting regime. …
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Public scolding for BT Privacy
Written Osborne Clarke on 31 Jan 2006
The recent ‘BT Privacy’ campaign featuring Jeremy Clarkson fired an exponential increase in Telephone Preference Service registrations. But was BT’s advertising as clear as it should have been and how…
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Official Brussels ‘location data’ guidance
Written Osborne Clarke on 31 Jan 2006
As the EU’s data protection super-group, the ‘Article 29 Working Party’ reports, commercial use of data on where a mobile phone is located has increased spectacularly. This has major data…
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Major EU import labelling initiative
Written Osborne Clarke on 31 Jan 2006
Believe it or not, there are no EU-wide rules as to marking the origin of products imported into the Union. Now, a proposed EU regulation seeks to bring the EU…
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First UK damages paid by email marketer
Written Osborne Clarke on 31 Jan 2006
In the first reported case of its kind, a reluctant commercial email recipient has sued the sender and got damages as a result. Topic: E-mail marketing Who: Nigel Roberts and Media Logistics…
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EEA-US data export: gateways to compliance
Written Osborne Clarke on 31 Jan 2006
Under the EU Data Protection Directive, there are only limited numbers of ways in which personal data can be compliantly transferred from the EU, Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein to the…
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Could Picasso airbrush ‘Picaro’ Community Trade Mark?
Written Osborne Clarke on 31 Jan 2006
Since 1998, DaimlerChrysler has been trying to register PICARO as a Community Trade Mark for cars. Since 1998, the Picasso estate has been trying to stop them. Now the last…
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Comet’s high definition faux pas
Written Osborne Clarke on 31 Jan 2006
In its advertising for HDTVs, Comet suggested that even without HDTV signals, the sets would give a clearer picture. Was this right and if they had got it wrong, what…
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BBC’s ‘Shopping trip to New York’ competition backfires
Written Osborne Clarke on 31 Jan 2006
Nobody told a Radio Essex listener that she hadn’t really won a shopping trip to New York at all after answering the competition question correctly. What did Ofcom think and…
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Ad sweep woe
Written Osborne Clarke on 31 Jan 2006
The OFT recently published the results of a trading standards ‘advertising sweep’ monitoring compliance with the Consumer Credit (Advertisements) Regulations 2004. Topic: The Consumer Credit Act (Advertisements) Regulations 2004 Who: The Office…
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‘Metrix’ tug of war
Written Osborne Clarke on 31 Jan 2006
Two companies fought a pitched battle over the brand METRIX ELECTRONICS. One was trying to get it registered as a trade mark. The other had used the unregistered mark METRIX…
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