Oliver Löffel, Author at Kluwer Trademark Blog

Germany: The Black Friday Trademark Battle

Oliver Löffel (Löffel Abrar)/November 20, 2017November 8, 2018 /Leave a comment

The Black Friday shopping storm 2017 will kick off soon. However, the Black Friday battle has already begun in Germany. The dispute circles around a German trade mark Black Friday, the owner of the trademark being based in Hong Kong, and its German licensee. In fact, all traces “lead to Vienna”, as media summarized the…

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Testarossa – Still a trade mark or just a memory of the fancy 80s?

Oliver Löffel (Löffel Abrar)/August 22, 2017August 22, 2017 /Leave a comment

“All I know about you is that you drive a Testarossa and you live on a boat”, Christine von Marburg (Melanie Griffith) once said to Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) in one of the popular TV-series of the 80s: Miami Vice. Testarossa is the name of one of Ferrari’s cars. So far the history. On August…