‘Don’t fence me in’: what if your locally used trade name is in between one proprietor’s earlier trade name and a corresponding younger trade mark? – the finale of the Classic Coach Company case
In her ‘Happy new year‘ (30 December 2022) post on this blog ‘Trademarks in Luxembourg‘ Verena von Bomhard shortly referred to the ECJ’s Classic Coach (C-112/21) decision of 2 June 2022 as relating to ‘the complex relationship between trademarks and earlier unregistered local and trade name rights‘. In the meantime, the matter returned to the…