UK: ‘Wrong way round’ confusion won the day in Court of Appeal Decision
The UK Court of Appeal recently upheld the High Court’s decision that the use of ‘glee’ by Twentieth Century Fox (‘Fox’) as the name of its comedy TV series infringed…
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SPAIN: THE LILA MOP. THE SCOPE OF PROTECTION OF FIGURATIVE MARKS CONSISTING OF THE TWO-DIMENSIONAL REPRESENTATION OF A PRODUCT
…perceive those signs as an indication of commercial origin absent exceptional circumstances. The Spanish Supreme Court, in its judgment of 25 February 2016, applied these same criteria to the infringement…
Conversion of a Community Trademark: German BGH I ZR 15/14 of 23.9.2015 Amplidect/ampliteq
…the Community trademark by way of conversion according to Article 112 I lit. b CTMR 2009, this neither triggers any claims due to infringement of the Community trademark which has…
Portugal: Recent Decision of Appeal Court on “misleading trademarks”
The Lisbon Court of Appeal has recently confirmed a decision – debatable, as we will further develop – from the IP Court. In this matter, a wine company owns a…
Portuguese Supreme Court clarifies status period for annulment
…which is imprescriptible. It was generally held that this provision seemed to inexplicably combine different legal institutes, the prescription and the limitation dates, which have very different legal treatment in…
Sweden: First judgment on reputation following CJEU’s IMPULSE-judgment
…appealed the decision to PBR and argued that there was no likelihood of confusion between the signs. In their submissions to PBR, the two Sky-companies argued heavily that an EUTM…
Court of Appeal – The Hague: confusing similarity between the device mark of Lacoste and the word mark EAU CROCO
…for (among other things) cosmetic products in class 3, and the word mark EAU CROCO for the same products. The case concerned an application by a Dutch company for the…
Share a Coke – but only with fluting.
…reflects a common shape of a bottle and, therefore, does not enable the relevant public to immediately and directly identify the commercial origin of the goods. Furthermore, it was argued…
Top 3 Kluwer Patent Blog and Kluwer Copyright Blog law posts in February 2016
…following the preliminary Infopaq-rulings of the European Court of Justice, the Danish Supreme Court ruled that extracts of newspaper articles comprising no more than 11 words can be works protected…
Use, or not use, that is the question: Case C‑179/15 Daimler AG v Együd Garage Gépjárműjavító és Értékesítő Kft.
…Benz szerviz’ (‘authorised Mercedes-Benz dealer’) in its own online (www.telefonkonyv.hu) advertisements ordered from the Hungarian Phonebook Company (MTT). Despite the request of Együd Garage to amend the advertisement, it continued…