Like many companies in the fashion industry, Christian Louboutin did not seek design patent protection for its shoe designs in Brazil. The red sole trademark application was filed in 2009 in Brazil,…
The Chinese company acted with the requisite bad faith under the ACPA when it bought and re-registered the domain name, which was identical to several registered trademarks owned by the insurance and…
District court failed to draw inferences in favor of nonmoving party in finding no likelihood of confusion.
The federal district court in Miami erred in awarding summary judgment for a title…
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Albanian IP Office implements CP9
The General Directorate of Industrial Property (GDIP) of the Republic of Albania has implemented…
As expected, in its decision of 21 December 2022 (T-44/22), the General Court (GC) upheld the refusal of the packaging design shown above on the right as a trademark for tobacco products…
At a time when New Year’s resolutions to exercise more fizzle out for lack of motivation, many people realise what the General Court (GC) already knew: sport and entertainment do not necessarily have…
“To grant trade-dress protection for Pocket Plus,” the court said, “would be to hand it a monopoly over the ‘best’ portable-pouch design,” which trademark law precludes.
In a trade-dress infringement…
A district court was too hasty in rejecting the safe distance rule.
A federal district court in Detroit must reconsider its decision to allow the Indian maker of an off-road vehicle to release a…
Most often, my blogs here relate to Canadian trademark practice - always changing and often of interest to trademark owners and practionners. This time however, I’m writing about mid-career…
19/10/2022 T-275/21, DEVICE OF A CHEQUERBOARD PATTERN (fig.), EU:T:2022:654
The French designer’s iconic fabric, one that is no stranger to catwalks and maison de couture around the world, has…
