IPEC jurisdiction on EUTM infringement
…committed or threatened for the purposes of EUTM rights, were not necessarily one and the same. Hacon discerned that, in determining the place where the infringement has been committed, the…
…committed or threatened for the purposes of EUTM rights, were not necessarily one and the same. Hacon discerned that, in determining the place where the infringement has been committed, the…
…publicity rights can be sought through other more generic channels, such as an action for “misappropriation of another party’s reputation” under the unfair competition law. The above comments relate to…
…Denmark: What do LEGO, JENSEN and UTZON have in common? by Lasse Arffmann Søndergaard Christensen and Louise Thorning Ahle “LEGO, JENSEN and UTZON have in-common that they all are trademarks…
…established on the market, the distinctiveness of the trademark was considered low. Consequently, the scope of protection was limited to Mars’ use of the lowercase letter m in different combinations….
…that, whether one regards it as fair or not, the fame of the slogan and its adoption as part of the common language, spawning numerous variants by other traders, had…
…in his application for action to apply this procedure – appears to have gone down by 5% compared to 2014. In this context, the Commission noted the fact that right-holders…
…the Panel Session X “Unwrapping the European Trademark Reform Package”. The panelists were: Luis Berenguer (Head of the Communication Service at EUIPO), Jan Vleck (Reddie & Grose, UK) and prof….
Royal Copenhagen, the Danish porcelain company, claimed infringement by Porsgrund AS (hereafter Porsgrund) as it considered the Norwegian porcelain dinner service company’s dinner service sets called ‘MaxiStrå blå’ to constitute…
…According to Fyffes the comparison between the trademarks should have simply be reduced to the comparison of the word element HOYA versus HOLA. This oversimplification was however dismissed by the…
…part of the losing party. Telenet complained that this was not in line with Article 14 of the Enforcement Directive [Directive 2004/48/EC on the enforcement of intellectual property rights], and…