4th January 2008 | marketinglaw

World Cup Willie still rules OK?
Written Osborne Clarke on 04 Jan 2008
The FA opposed an attempt by “Jules Rimet Cup Ltd” to register a football-kicking lion cartoon and the words “World Cup Willie” as a UK trade mark. But how could…
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South Africa cracks down on food labels
Written Osborne Clarke on 04 Jan 2008
New regulations have been published in Pretoria designed to tighten food claim and label information rules. Origin, date and batch numbers must feature and special restrictions apply to certain foods…
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Ryanair’s Swedish pay-out
Written Osborne Clarke on 04 Jan 2008
In March 2006 we reported that Swedish PM Goran Persson had sued over a Ryanair ad picturing him and headed “Time to leave the country”. Now the parties have settled.…
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Red-Facedbook apologises as Brussels focuses
Written Osborne Clarke on 04 Jan 2008
Not long after an announcement that the leading EU data privacy regulators’ group would be closely scrutinising behavioural targeting/targeted online advertising in 2008, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had to eat…
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Predictions for 2008
Written Osborne Clarke on 04 Jan 2008
At our sold-out “Look Back, Face Forward” ninth annual marketing law forum on 5 December 2007 conference chair Stephen Groom looked into the crystal ball and predicted the big marketing…
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New EU regime for comparative ads
Written Osborne Clarke on 04 Jan 2008
By 12 December 2007 all EU member states were obliged to implement a new, consolidated directive on misleading and comparative advertising and thereby scrap the existing regime for comparative advertising…
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New EU “Sweep” weapon trained on flight ticket websites
Written Osborne Clarke on 04 Jan 2008
In the first of what will apparently be many such initiatives, the European Commission has conducted an EU-wide “sweep” of airline websites looking for unfair and misleading practices. High levels…
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Media discounts irk German regulators
Written Osborne Clarke on 04 Jan 2008
Fines exceeding 215m Euro were recently imposed on German TV stations for offering media buying agencies significant rebates if they committed significant ad spend to their networks. But doesn’t this…
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Italy gets even tougher on misleading advertisers
Written Osborne Clarke on 04 Jan 2008
Not content with fining advertisers nearly 9m Euro in the last two years, Italy’s government has introduced still more measures as part of its implementation of the Unfair Commercial Practices…
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HM Government launches data sharing consultation
Written Osborne Clarke on 04 Jan 2008
“Problem? Gordon’s looking into it” said a recent headline, and here’s another enquiry, possibly the 50th since our new PM arrived. This time the focus is public and private sharing…
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Germany’s pharma ad rules challenged
Written Osborne Clarke on 04 Jan 2008
The ECJ recently considered a German ban on third party statements and prize promotions to market over the counter pharmaceutical products. Did these controls, applied in this case to ginseng…
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Court supports 3 year non compete
Written Osborne Clarke on 04 Jan 2008
When TV content acquirer/distributor RDF bought production company IWC, it got IWC chair and creative director Alan Clements to agree a 3 year non compete. 16 months later, Clements resigned…
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