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Jan 16, 2025 | 
natlawreview.com | Arthur Artinian
New developments in Europe make a filing strategy for registered designs and trade marks even more essential for the modern consumer business. Read on to find out more. On 19 December 2024, the EU’s new Packaging Regulation was signed and will come into force 18 months after the date of publication, still to be announced. This repeals the old packaging directive and makes significant changes to the regime.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Arthur Artinian |Mélanie Bruneau |Giovanni Campi
A new and powerful wave of “greenwashing”1 bans will sweep the European Union (EU) shortly. The EU’s Green Claims Directive and Greenwashing Directive2 (together, the Green Directives) are key legislative tools being introduced in the EU as part of the European Green Deal, focused on combatting misleading claims regarding products’ environmental friendliness or social consciousness.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Aurelija Grubytė |Mélanie Bruneau |Annette Mutschler-Siebert |Giovanni Campi |Arthur Artinian |Niall J. Lavery
A new and powerful wave of “greenwashing”1 bans will sweep the European Union (EU) shortly. The EU’s Green Claims Directive and Greenwashing Directive2 (together, the Green Directives) are key legislative tools being introduced in the EU as part of the European Green Deal, focused on combatting misleading claims regarding products’ environmental friendliness or social consciousness.
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Aug 4, 2023 | 
mondaq.com | Arthur Artinian |Georgina Rigg |Maya Ffrench-Adam
On 1 August, the UK government announced that it would extend use of the
EU's Conformité Européene (CE) mark for certain
products placed on the market in Great Britain
indefinitely.
This is an abrupt change from the intended plan of phasing out
use of the EU's CE mark and replacing it with a new British
version known as the UK Conformity Assessed (UKCA) mark by the end
of 2024.
What are the CE and the UKCA marks?
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Aug 3, 2023 | 
mondaq.com | Arthur Artinian |Georgina Rigg |Maya Ffrench-Adam
Countdown clocks are a useful feature of digital advertising. Think "Sale ends midnight!" accompanied by a clock
counting down the minutes you have left to make an order. When used
correctly these urgency claims can help drive interest in a sale. However, they can also easily become misleading and breach UK
consumer protection laws.
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Aug 2, 2023 | 
natlawreview.com | Arthur Artinian
Wednesday, August 2, 2023 On 1 August, the UK government announced that it would extend use of the EU’s Conformité Européene (CE) mark for certain products placed on the market in Great Britain indefinitely. This is an abrupt change from the intended plan of phasing out use of the EU’s CE mark and replacing it with a new British version known as the UK Conformity Assessed (UKCA) mark by the end of 2024. What are the CE and the UKCA marks?
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Aug 2, 2023 | 
europeancurrent.com | Arthur Artinian |Georgina Rigg |Maya Ffrench-Adam
Wednesday, August 2, 2023 On 1 August, the UK government announced that it would extend use of the EU’s Conformité Européene (CE) mark for certain products placed on the market in Great Britain indefinitely. This is an abrupt change from the intended plan of phasing out use of the EU’s CE mark and replacing it with a new British version known as the UK Conformity Assessed (UKCA) mark by the end of 2024. What are the CE and the UKCA marks?
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Aug 2, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Maya Ffrench-Adam |Georgina Rigg |Arthur Artinian
On 1 August, the UK government announced that it would extend use of the EU’s Conformité Européene (CE) mark for certain products placed on the market in Great Britain indefinitely. This is an abrupt change from the intended plan of phasing out use of the EU’s CE mark and replacing it with a new British version known as the UK Conformity Assessed (UKCA) mark by the end of 2024. What are the CE and the UKCA marks?
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Aug 1, 2023 | 
natlawreview.com | Arthur Artinian
Countdown clocks are a useful feature of digital advertising. Think “Sale ends midnight!” accompanied by a clock counting down the minutes you have left to make an order. When used correctly these urgency claims can help drive interest in a sale. However, they can also easily become misleading and breach UK consumer protection laws.
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Jun 22, 2023 | 
natlawreview.com | Arthur Artinian
As we learned to appreciate over the past year or so, virtual goods are intangible assets that can be traded within a virtual economy, worth whatever participants in the virtual market are willing to pay for them. Though a type of virtual good, NFTs have their own unique definition, which can now be found in the Cambridge Dictionary:An NFT is a unique unit of data (the only one existing of its type) that links to a particular piece of digital art, music, video etc. and that can be bought and sold.
