Elon Musk’s X Corp. purchased social media site Twitter in 2022. The TWITTER “brand” was estimated to be worth $5.7 billion at that time. Twitter had lagged behind other social media sites in terms…
Article 132(1) of the EUTM Regulation 2017/1001 provides that an EU trade mark court before which an EUTM infringement action has been brought ‘shall stay the proceedings’ if an application for…
Following the strategic cancellation attempts seen in the Ericsson and Sanyo cases, another trademark dispute has reached a Kazakhstani court, this time involving a Ukrainian trademark holder and a…
The General Court (GC) has recently confirmed that the figurative European Union trademark no. 002810299 consisting of two parallel stripes on the side of a shoe lacked distinctiveness (T-307/23 of…
Already in 2019, the Austrian Supreme Court (“OGH”) had confirmed the lower instance decisions cancelling the Austrian figurative mark “SW Sophienwald” for being decriptive of its geographical origin…
Burning hot August day in the picturesque bay of Lindos (Rhodos/Greece)
A recent decision of the Higher Regional Court Vienna (OLG Vienna), second - and often last – instance in cancellation and…
It is understandable why (most) trademarks owners do not like the five-year dependency period of an international registration since in case of “central attack” or refusal of the basic application,…
The General Court of the European Union (“GCEU”), annulling the Board of Appeal (“BOA”) decision, found that L’Oreal’s K K WATER mark is not confusingly similar to Heinze’s earlier K mark.
It was not…
As of January 14, 2023, actions for revocation and invalidity of Spanish trademarks can be filed through administrative proceedings before the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (“SPTO”). This is…
