…granted in 2007 following demonstration of acquired distinctiveness for champagne wines in class 33. Along with its sister company, Moët Hennessy Italia S.p.A., (collectively, the Plaintiff) filed an infringement action…
…infringement. For renowned trademarks, the similarity required for a finding of likelihood of confusion is less than in the case of ordinary trademarks . The Swiss company Omega which specializes…
…Further, competitor A Top New Casting, Inc. (A Top) was not entitled to a new trial on the ground that the district court improperly excluded several utility patents from evidence,…
Recently, the Danish Commercial and Maritime High Court balanced the legal interest in the family name Ørsted against the commercial interest in the name of Ørsted by ruling on the…
…claims arising out of what the corporation contended was political retribution exacted by the mayor against it (Comite Fiestas De La Calle San Sebastian, Inc. v. Carmen Yulin Cruz Soto,…
…been considered improper by the Indian courts. The Delhi High Court shunned such practise and asked the plaintiffs to come up with clean hands without concealing material facts. Consequently, the…
…per cent of world trade, or USD 461 billion. For more information see Europol’s webpage here: https://www.europol.europa.eu/crime-areas-and-trends/crime-areas/intellectual-property-crime/counterfeiting-and-product-piracy. A Danish researcher and associate professor, Thomas Just Sørensen, and fellow researcher, Riikka…
Foreign companies continuing to protect their IP rights in Venezuela face yet more changes related to payment of government fees. These new changes aim to circumvent the US sanctions being…
…the infringement at that time. Although cosmetics equipment company A.C.T. 898 Products, Inc. (“ACT”) convinced a jury that competitor W.S. Industries, Inc. (“WSI”) willfully infringed ACT’s “777” trademark for nail…
…of a complementary nature. The US company Clinique Laboratories LLC (Clinique) which specializes in the manufacture and marketing of cosmetic products owns the European Union Trademark “CLINIQUE”, registered in 1996….
