…in revocation actions. The Directives also mention the following examples of accepted pieces of evidence: extracts of the Company Register (in combination with other evidences); searches on the web (for…
…creative character, as the combination of its features were new in the cosmetics sector. The Court further declared Wycon responsible for copyright infringement and unfair competition for its parasitic conduct,…
…not only the Register, but unregistered or common law sources. The grace period for putting the mark to use will be three years from registration. Nice classification of goods and…
…Association Agreement. On the other hand, the Commercial Court of Kyiv and the Kyiv City Commercial Court of Appeal ruled that the Agreement’s provisions may be directly applied because Art….
The U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a Seattle district court’s dismissal of trademark infringement and false advertising claims filed against Amazon.com, Inc. by a seller on Amazon. The district court…
…that the clothier did not commit fraud on the USPTO when it obtained its registrations (Excelled Sheepskin & Leather Coat Corp. v. Oregon Brewing Company, July 27, 2018, Leval, P.)….
…This assurance has come from Robin Walker, the Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, in a recent Parliamentary debate: UK-owned trademarks and design rights in the EU27…
…brands (Decision of 6 March 2018 in Case I-20 U 113/17). The claimant Kanebo commercializes luxury cosmetic products protected by the EU trademarks “Kanebo” and “Sensai” by way of selective…
…costs and obstructs access to justice. The law provides for mandatory participation of lawyers at a mediation (which is not common in other countries) in an attempt to involve them…
…generic or ‘common’ must be more or less generalized, at least among one relevant part of the public (see CJEU C-409/12, Backaldrin Österreich The Kornspitz Company). In the ‘AFTERSUN’ case,…
