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Information claim the Czech way: smell of partial victory for Chanel against online retailer

Michal Havlik (Havlik Svorcik & Partners)/March 13, 2024March 13, 2024 /Leave a comment

The Prague High Court as an appellate court issued its judgment in the case of Chanel S.A.S. against Notino s.r.o. (3 Cmo 107/2022-384 dated 28 November 2023) after an almost six-year legal battle with the Czech based online retailer Notino, a major European player in online sales of perfumery and cosmetics. The good news for…

Czech Republic, Defences, General Court, Infringement, Infringement action, Parallel imports, Supreme Court

Czech Supreme Court in Fiskars: defence of abuse of dominant position by trademark owner in parallel imports litigation not to be axed at once

Michal Havlik (Havlik Svorcik & Partners)/September 30, 2019September 30, 2019 /Leave a comment

The Czech Supreme Court issued a judgment in the case of Fiskars Corporation against Mountfield a.s. (23 Cdo 5955/2017-231 dated 29 May 2019). Fiskars sued Mountfield, a home improvement and gardening retailer, among others, for trademark infringement consisting in illegal parallel imports from North America to the EU of Fiskars branded axes. The defendant did…

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Do you need a banking licence to own a trademark containing word „bank“?

Michal Havlik (Havlik Svorcik & Partners)/April 3, 2016December 12, 2018 /Leave a comment

The Prague City Court reviewed decision of the Czech Industrial Property Office on invalidity of trademark “Partners banka” logo filed by the largest provider of financial advisory services in the Czech Republic. The trademark owner did not hold a banking licence. The court held that the Office did not err when it invalidated the trademark…