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The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) announced today that it has for the first time referred questions of legal interpretation of the EU Trade Mark Regulation (EUTMR) to the enlarged Board of Appeal.

Ahead of a busy year for sport, teams may be heartened by the perseverance and eventual success of ‘Team USA’ as a registered mark, says Lakmal Walawage of JMW Solicitors.

The Fourth Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) has reversed the refusal of Haribo’s figurative trade mark consisting of an image of its 'Goldbear’ gummy bear on the basis that the mark does satisfy the minimum degree of distinctiveness.

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Chanel was handed a loss by the Japan Trademark Office in its quest to shut down the registration of an interlocking “C”s mark.

GBoA has decided the first case in which INTA had filed an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief, i.e., Case R 964/2020-G, EUROMADI IBERICA, S.A. v. Zorka Gerdzhikova, addressing the highly controversial issue of similarity between alcoholic beverages and non-alcoholic beverages.

GBoA has decided the first case in which INTA had filed an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief, i.e., Case R 964/2020-G, EUROMADI IBERICA, S.A. v. Zorka Gerdzhikova, addressing the highly controversial issue of similarity between alcoholic beverages and non-alcoholic beverages.

Russian government retaliated against West sanctions by issuing decree permitting patented innovations to be used without authorization or payment of consideration if patent holder is from non-allied country.

In a recent decision, the General Court of the European Union (GC) ruled that a likelihood of confusion can occur in situations in which the mark on the one hand is comprised of co-dominant wording and figurative elements and the mark on the other hand is comprised of only figurative elements.

April 01 2021 The photo of Prince by Lynn Goldsmith (L) and the Andy Warhol depiction (R), as shown in court documents Unilever is top EUTM filer in Netherlands Consumer goods company Unilever – which until November 2020 had its headquarters in both the Netherlands and the UK – topped the list of most active EUTM filers in the Netherlands in 2020 by filing 68 applications. Unilever was also the second biggest Netherlands-based filer from 2015 to 2020 with 392 appl...