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Should you be able to register a trade mark for wide descriptions of goods and services or should you only be able to register it for...

The High Court’s ruling on Athleta (ITM) Inc. v Sports Group Denmark A/S and another (2024) has once again underscored key issues on...

In the world of funeral services, the recent Taffo family trade mark dispute in Italy has drawn significant attention. The Court of Rome...

UNITED KINGDOM   Legal updates: case law analysis and intelligence UK-based AI software developer opposed the use of “App BUILDER”,...

Case references – Paris Judicial Court, 3rd chamber, 2nd section, March 18th, 2022, n. 20/03727 ; Paris Court of Appeal, 5th division,...

A hard-fought battle over the right to use the “FANATICS” mark in Australia for clothing and retail services has been won at first...

If a company registers an identical or similar company name in the UK with Companies House, submitting a complaint with the Company Names...

Non-English words are increasingly used by Australian companies to market goods and services. In February, Justice Charlesworth of the...

rthurOn December 15, 2023, the Court of Appeal dismissed Samsung’s appeal of a High Court decision which held the tech giant liable for...

To what extent can product packaging be an illicit look-alike of a competitor’s product packaging?  A ruling by the Court of Turin...

Case Note: Steam Vac Cleaning Systems Pty Ltd v SV Equipment Pty Ltd [2024] FCA 68 Background Steam Vac Cleansing Systems Pty Ltd (SVCS)...

On 23 February 2024, five judges of the Federal Court of Australia overturned an award of damages against an e-marketplace provider,...

On 4 March 2024, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 brought several significant changes to Company Name Tribunal...

The high profile dispute between supermarket retailers Lidl and Tesco has now come to a head at the Court of Appeal, with Lidl emerging...

The court did not change the law on ‘targeting’, affirming the summaries given by the Court of Appeal in the earlier Merck and Argos...

In a decision issued this week, the Supreme Court has for the first time addressed the issue of when the use of a trade mark on a foreign...