Title NLUD 2.5 Lessons 2 & 3 (JdeWerra 30 01 2025).pdf ✅

31/01/2025 2 7 • International Trademark Association (“INTA”) Model Law Guidelines: “[a]part from the registered proprietor, there should be a presumption that exclusive licensees may sue infringers, but subject to contrary agreement with the proprietor” 8 What is an exclusive license ? • « merely terming a license agreement “exclusive” is “not conclusive as to its legal effect” if the actual rights granted under the agreement are inconsistent with the characterization » Heraeus Kulzer LLC v. Omni Dental Supply, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 91949 (D. Mass. July 1, 2013) • License held as exclusive even if it was « subject to a [preexisting] nonexclusive license » Intellectual Property Dev., Inc. v. TCI Cablevision of Cal., Inc., 248 F.3d 1333, 1336 (Fed. Cir. 2001) 9 Regulation under the Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks • Exclusive license « means a license which is only granted to one licensee and which excludes the holder from using the mark and from granting licenses to any other person » (Rule 1 (1) (iii)) 10 Case law • US case law: Kroma Makeup EU, LLC v. Boldface Licensing + Branding, Inc., 264 F. Supp. 3d 1294 (M.D. Fla. 2017) • EU case law: - CJEU, Youssef Hassan v. Breiding Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH, C-163/15, 4 February 2016 - CJEU, VW v SW and Others and Legea S.r.l. v VW and Others, Case C-686/21, 27 April 2023 11 UK Case law • Neurim Pharmaceuticals (1991) Ltd & Anor v Generics (UK) Ltd & Anor (Rev1) [2022] EWCA Civ 359 (29 March 2022) http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2022/359. html • Commented by: https://www.simmons- simmons.com/en/publications/cl3bp58c11l320b15kw9o 1vwg/court-of-appeal-overturns-controversial-patent- licensing-decision 12 7 8 9 10 11 12