The registrant failed to show that his domain name airbnbseo.com was not confusingly similar to Airbnb’s famous mark, or that he acted without a bad faith intent to profit from that mark.The Ninth…
On 17 September 2026, the Paris Judicial Court delivered another judgment in a dispute between a luxury brand, this time Louis Vuitton, and a company manufacturing and marketing clothing made from…
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…
A luxury perfumery brand with a selective distribution network and a single exclusive distributor in Poland took on a major Polish online retailer, suing for trade mark infringement. The retailer had…
1. IntroductionA famous trade mark can be a powerful enforcement tool, but it is not a veto over every later sign that happens to share its first two letters. That is the lesson of a recent EUIPO…
On 8 September 2026, the Court of Justice delivered its long-awaited judgment in the IKEA case (C-298/23). See on this case the previous articles in this blog (here and here).The question was whether…
The Fifth Circuit found that the computation of damages was more than ministerial or mechanical.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit dismissed URZ Trendz, L.L.C.’s appeal of default…
A recent Kazakhstan dispute over the PREMIER brand saw trademark enforcement turn against the registered owner, whose attempt to stop imports was followed by the invalidation of two of his…
The district court correctly found that the manufacturer of Scotts Miracle-Gro products will not likely prevail on the trade-dress infringement and trade-dress dilution claims.In a trademark…
