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: Lenz BlogConvention on Choice of Court Agreements
By Karl-Friedrich Lenz
The Official Journal L133 of 29 May 2009 publishes Council Decision 2009/397/EC on the signing of the European Community. The status table for the Convention shows the United States as signatory and Mexico as having ratified.
That Convention makes agreements between private parties on the choice of court agreements enforcable internationally.
Under Article 2 2. n) the Convention does not apply to the validity of intellectual property rights other than copyright and related rights. And under Article 2 2. o) there is another exception for infringement of intellectual property rights other than copyright and related rights, except where infringement proceedings are brought for breach of a contract between the parties relating to such rights, or could have been brought for breach of that contract.
Full post as published by Lenz Blog on May 29, 2009 (boomark / email).
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