5th August 2008 | marketinglaw

Warmed over price guidance from the BERR

Written Osborne Clarke on 05 Aug 2008

New Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations scrapped previous price indication laws and necessitated an update to a related pricing code. In the old code’s place has appeared “Guidance” from…
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The end of “We pay you to fly with us” offers?

Written Osborne Clarke on 05 Aug 2008

Euro MPs have approved a measure to ban airlines from advertising cheap flights that do not include the taxes and charges passengers have to pay. The new rules are expected…
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Screen-scraping: Ireland hosts new aggregation site battleground

Written Osborne Clarke on 05 Aug 2008

Ryanair claims that a flight aggregation site’s practice of “screen-scraping” infringes their trade marks and database rights and that the use of RYANAIR amounts to “passing off”. Gemma Neylon, trainee…
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Property Woman of the Year Awards breach Code

Written Osborne Clarke on 05 Aug 2008

Bradford & Bingley ran a national “Property Woman of the Year” contest but a disappointed entrant queried the selection process and its consistency with ads. David Pawan reports the Advertising…
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Pending New York Bills to Extend Right of Publicity Beyond Death

Written Osborne Clarke on 05 Aug 2008

People may soon be able to protect the commercial use of their persona after death in the State of New York under pending right of publicity bills that would expand…
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No product placement please, we’re British? Part 2

Written Osborne Clarke on 05 Aug 2008

Following Andy Burnham’s negative comments on liberalising UK TV product placement rules, the DCMS is now consulting on whether it should be permitted. What are the arguments and the prospects…
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New threat looms for Scottish viral campaigns

Written by Anna Williams on 05 Aug 2008

A new “Sexual Offences Bill” is making its way through the Scottish Parliament with new offences that could bite advertisers using flirting texts. Anna Montes reports. Topic: Mobile marketing…
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New Ebay case

Written Osborne Clarke on 05 Aug 2008

Following last month’s Marketinglaw.co.uk article on the fine handed down to Ebay for allowing fake Hermes bags, Ray Coyle examines two new, and conflicting, decisions from France and the US…
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Key implications of ECJ judgment

Written Osborne Clarke on 05 Aug 2008

On 9 July 2008 Osborne Clarke held a unique workshop reporting in depth on the recent ECJ judgment in the O2/Hutchison case over using competitors’ brands in ads. Speaker Nick…
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Junking junk mail for good?

Written Osborne Clarke on 05 Aug 2008

The Walport data sharing review has now been published, but what does this mean for marketers and what’s all this nonsense about local authorities no longer selling electoral register data?…
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Dream it! Do it!? In your dreams, say Euro trade mark judges

Written Osborne Clarke on 05 Aug 2008

The CFI has rejected an application to register as a Community Trade Mark the slogan DREAM IT! DO IT!, finding that it lacks distinctive character. But what about Nike’s JUST…
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Chinese recipe to combat ambush marketing

Written by Nick Johnson on 05 Aug 2008

The Beijing Organising Committee has put in place some of the toughest ever measures to combat ambush marketing at the 2008 Olympics, with signs already emerging of these backfiring on…
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