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The September 2006 issue of Sweet & Maxwell's monthly European Trade Mark Reports has now been published, once again ahead of schedule (well done, Sweets). Cases reported in English for the first time in this issue are

* SA Inès de la Fressange v Inès Seignard de la Fressange (Cour d'appel de Paris, France) - a celebrity, having assigned trade mark rights to her name, is nonetheless protected against the assignee's false representation that she remains associated with the assignee's business;

* PepsiCo Inc v Coca-Cola (District Court, Utrecht, The Netherlands) - action for infringement of Benelux mark is an abuse of process, where a previous action for infringement of the identical Community trade mark was already rejected.

Another fascinating decision reported in this issue is Adidas-Salomon AG v Draper (Chancery Division, England and Wales), in which adidas won the first round of what will probably be a lengthy struggle against the world's tennis authorities as to whether their rules can limit the use of adidas' three-stripe trade mark on tenniswear used in major tournaments.

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