Time flies so fast… It seems like only yesterday I informed on this blog about the EU Commission’s report on EU customs enforcement of intellectual property rights for 2015. And…
…Claimants’ EU trade marks on the basis that the word SKY was not distinctive in relation to the field of cloud computing. The Claimants then brought a claim in the…
…thoroughfares. As regards Autonomous Communities, most operations were carried out in Andalusia with 464 seizures and a total of almost 408,000 seized products. Next was the Community of Valencia with…
…the prototype model before launching. The appeal court decided that the plaintiff’s copyright for the chair was infringed by distributing the competitor’s chair and by making it available to the…
The Alicante Court of Appeal has concluded that the use of comparison lists in the marketing of smell-alike perfumes constitutes an unlawful form of comparative advertising, even when it is…
…Committee in the first instance assessed whether such use of the TM symbol could be misleading for the public. The Committee decided in line with the District Court The Hague…
…oval central space with pointed ends in the Chanel logo. Even taking into account the significant freedom of the designer when it comes to ornamentation, these differences produced a different…
The Federal Administrative Court partially overturned a decision of the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (IGE) refusing protection for Apple’s word mark “iMessage” for telecommunication services in class 38….
This blog will explore potential disadvantages of failing to utilise the registered community design (hereafter RCD) in a Danish context with a particular emphasis on cheap imitations of luxury consumer…
…falling short of the required 326. This is compared to the 331 seats that they won in the 2015 election. As a result, the UK now has a hung parliament,…
