OSMOSE is a law firm specialised in intellectual property, information technology and business-competition-consumer law.
17 February 2016
The “European trade mark reform legislative package” was adopted on 15th December 2015. The new Directive 2015/2436 will be transposed in France within 3 years. Regulation EC 2015/2424 which modifies Regulation EC 207/2009 shall apply as from 23rd March 2016.
In order to understand the new European trade mark and identify the future issues involved by this reform regarding French trade marks, Osmose Avocats will present, in partnership with Francis Lefebvre Formation, the following conference: Actualité du droit des marques : les impacts du « Paquet Marque »
16 December 2015
The European legislative framework was finally adopted on 15 December 2015 by the European Parliament (see our news of 10 June 2015).
The new Regulation on the European trademark will come into force 90 days after the its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union which is expected in January 2016.
The new Directive will come into force 20 days after its publication and shall be implemented by the Member States within the three following years, except for the dispositions relating to the administrative forfeiture and annulment procedures which can be transposed within seven years. The French Office has however recently expressed its will to make these new procedures operational as quickly as possible.
14 octobre 2015
By decision dated 6 October 2015 (Case C-362/14), the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that the Commission’s Safe Harbor enabling cross-border flows between Europe and United States (provided that recipient companies join the Safe Harbor principles) is invalid. Plus
22 April 2015
The creation of Osmose makes the front page of the letter Option Droit & Affaires: “Création d’Osmose, boutique originale en IP/IT”.