13 Nov, 2024 Long Awaited UK Supreme Court Decision in SkyKick v Sky By Peter Brownlow Tristan Sherliker 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...
12 Nov, 2024 Greenwashing Directives: The future of eco-labelling in the Spanish market By Maria Gutierrez The main objective of the Empowering Consumers Directive and the Directive Proposal on Green Claims [1] is to provide transparency and...
11 Nov, 2024 When evidence fails, ICE trade mark melts away By Martina Fossati A new wake-up call regarding the importance of genuine use for trade mark owners On September 2, 2024, the EUIPO Board of Appeal (the...
24 Oct, 2024 Don't Dig Your Own Grave with Bad Faith: A Trade mark Battle in Funeral Services By Andrea Vantini In the world of funeral services, the recent Taffo family trade mark dispute in Italy has drawn significant attention. The Court of Rome...
30 Aug, 2024 Takedown procedures in anticipation of a court decision: Proceed at your own risk! By Pava Vrhovac Case references – Paris Judicial Court, 3rd chamber, 2nd section, March 18th, 2022, n. 20/03727 ; Paris Court of Appeal, 5th division,...
05 May, 2024 International Comparative Legal Guide – Trade Marks 2024 now published! By Nick Aries Nick Aries and Dan Breen take a look at what’s ahead with the end of EU law supremacy and the impact it will have on UK trade mark law...
25 Sep, 2023 EU’s New Rules for Protecting Geographical Indications Beyond Agriculture By Romain Meys Niklas Fels The European Parliament approved new rules aimed at protecting geographical indications (“GI”) for craft and industrial products, in...
19 Jun, 2023 Challenges in protecting and enforcing Intellectual Property in the African continent By Daniel Anti A previous article looked at the growing importance of intellectual property (IP) in Africa (see here). In this article we consider some...
10 Mar, 2023 IP Australia rejects India’s trade mark application for the word ‘Basmati’ By Aaron Mathew Rebecca Currey The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), a part of the Indian Government’s Ministry of Commerce...