…a trademark infringement claim against the Polish company perfumesco.pl. Procter & Gamble produced the perfume under the exclusive licence of the HUGO BOSS word-trademark. In Poland, online retailer Perfumesco.pl offered…
…visible surface of the packaging” provided enough certainty so as to constitute a sign. Comment The decision establishes in the UK that a colour is, in principle, validly registerable –…
…of 30 August 2022). The injunction relief was filed in 2018 with the Commercial Court of the Canton of Aargau, requesting that Lidl be prohibited from advertising, offering or selling…
…In this case, Sky did not need to establish an intention to use SKY for every conceivable type of computer software to justify including “computer software” at large in its…
…marks to be removed from the register and referred the case back to the Zurich Commercial Court to decide on the question of injunctive relief (see Blog post of June…
First it was getting a registration as a trademark for the name of a State (see at http://trademarkblog.kluweriplaw.com/2022/03/28/mission-impossible-register-the-name-of-a-state-as-a-trademark/). Now, it is getting the European Union Court of Justice (CJEU) to…
The district court erred by failing to analyze infringement under reverse confusion theory. The federal district court in Miami erred by concluding as a matter of law that Amazon.com, Inc.’s…
…and non-alcoholic beverages to be similar when comparing the category terms, but also allowing room for a finding of similarity between specific non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages if a party is…
…psychoactive properties (albeit milder than those of the banned delta-9 THC compound), it met the requirements for legal hemp. That is, it was a derivative, extract, or cannabinoid originating from…
…some circumstances, the manufacturer of the non-original component is allowed to produce this despite the Community design. As the “repair clause” is an expression of the freedom of competition, in…
