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The consumer products sector is facing endless challenges such as globalisation and digitalisation, as well as those brought by environmental and health issues, supply chain management, media and consumer pressure, the increasing negotiation power of retailers, increased sales and online piracy. This places new demands on companies with regards to their management and business strategies, hence requiring specialist legal advice in the quest for solutions. 

Our expert Consumer Products team specialises in sub-sectors such as cosmetics, textiles, electronics, health and beauty, food and beverages, retail, home furnishings and industrial equipment, among others, comprising professionals from all legal practices which affect each sector. We advise clients on all legal and regulatory aspects from the financing and acquisition of companies to antitrust and unfair competition, media management, claims relating to health and nutrition, publicity and marketing, strategies for the protection of intellectual property rights, data protection, outsourcing, distribution agreements, property transactions, product withdrawals and many more. Our vast sector expertise enables us to keep our clients up to date with the latest market information, providing not only a commercial advantage but legal benefits as well.

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09/04/2024
Designs practice update: EU Court of Justice upholds Advocate General’s...
BackgroundIn our previous article (here), we discussed the opinion of Advocate General Capeta in EUIPO v The KaiKai Company Jaeger Wichmann. That opinion was provided following an appeal against the General...
09/04/2024
The sum of parts: Registered design for segments of towers found valid...
BackgroundTA Towers ApS (“TA Towers”), a company based in Denmark, is the holder of the below registered Community design relating to goods for building materials, specifically, ‘building materials...
09/04/2024
Plastics and packaging laws in Norway
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Cannabis law and legislation in Spain
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26/03/2024
EU Court ruling upholds invalidity action against PUMA shoe design
The EU General Court ruled on the invalidation of a community design by the EUIPO and an appeal against that decision (judgement of the General Court in Case T-647/22, Puma v EUIPO - Han­dels­maatschap­pij...
14/03/2024
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The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has given its ruling following a referral from the Regional Court of Warsaw, in a trade mark infringement claim brought by Audi (Audi AG v GQ, Case C-334/22)...
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A messy affair – IP law meets a cat litter tray in Belgian design court...
Introduction In recent weeks, the CMS Design team has been delving into pan-EU enforcement of Community design rights, as well as the scope of copyright “ori­gin­al­ity” under EU law. In a timely development...
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Greenwashing: Stricter EU rules on environmental marketing ban misleading...
On 17 January 2024, the European Parliament voted to adopt the Directive on Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition (the ECGT Directive), which seeks to protect consumers from various misleading...
19/01/2024
CBAM: Just over a week to comply
As the deadline for the first Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) report approaches on January 31st, it is crucial for undertakings engaged in importing relevant goods into the European Union to...
12/01/2024
A new tool in the fight against online infringement
Online infringements and domain squatting are challenges often faced by businesses and tackling such issues has been made all the more difficult in a post-GDPR world where most publicly available domain...
15/12/2023
Grate news for Grana Padano: logo granted cumulative protection in EU
Collective marks and protected designations of origin (PDOs) have different functions and confer different levels of protection. While the function of a collective mark is to indicate membership of an...
27/11/2023
EU Designs Reform, One Year On: EU Parliament announce Final Form of the...
On 7 November 2023, the EU Parliament published the final form of the updated EU Designs legislation. The new legislation, which takes form through a new Regulation and new Directive, are the Par­lia­ment’s...