Aug 02, 2024 EUIPO Board of Appeal rules that Canada Goose mark is distinctive By Simran Sidhu Canada Goose sought to register a figurative mark comprising 16 representations of geese for Class 25 goodsThe EUIPO examiner rejected...
Jul 11, 2024 Champagne for everybody? – General Court denies acquired distinctiveness of orange colour trade mark for Champagne By Jan Bärenfänger How strict are the requirements for proving acquired distinctiveness throughout the EU? This question has been bothering trade mark...
Jun 26, 2024 Name Protection Rights: Totò, more than a stage name By Martina Fossati By PI order of December 27, 2023, the IP Specialized Division of the Court of Rome provided some interesting remarks regarding the...
Feb 27, 2024 A Bone to Pick with Distinctiveness of Trade Marks By Lynne Lewis Sanya Bhatnagar Is the mark “Melbourne Bone and Joint Clinic” (the MBJC Mark) for medical and orthopaedic surgery type services in classes 35 and 44...
Dec 06, 2023 “Facing” the possibility of registering human faces as trade marks – EUIPO clears up the issue By Pietro Dettori It is well known that one of the main functions of a trade mark is to identify a person or trader’s products or services. In this way,...
Jan 12, 2023 Acquired distinctiveness: flooring objections to evidence of use in Singapore By Randy Hong Gene Kwek Lorraine Tay Lorraine Tay, Gene Kwek, and Randy Hong wrote an article for Managing IP on a decision by the Singapore Trademarks Registry that accepted...
May 03, 2022 Never again no idea about title rights By Julia Präger The German Trade Mark Act not only protects trade marks and company names but work titles, too. Work titles are the names/designations of...
Feb 01, 2022 Have you ever thought of the “Hop On Hop Off” bus as a colour registered trade mark? By Francesca Rombola Martina Fossati By precautionary order of March 9, 2021 – then upheld by order of May 10, 2021 – the IP Specialised Division of the Court of Milan...
Dec 16, 2021 Burgers, beers and wicked desserts: Lessons for brand owners from the Australian Food & Beverage sector By Lynne Lewis Shariqa Mestroni t turns out that 2021 was the year for the Australian food & beverage sector to take trade mark cases to the Full Federal Court. In this...