The district court erred in interpreting the parties’ contract as unambiguously allowing the charter school network to use trademarks post-termination.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit…
Part I examined how The Economist Newspaper Limited was recognized as an “interested person” despite having no trademark protection in Kazakhstan. Part II considers two further issues raised by the…
Two previous posts on this blog examined how Kazakh courts protect famous foreign brands from different perspectives. One showed that worldwide reputation alone was insufficient where ETRO lacked…
On 21 May 2026, the Paris Judicial Court delivered a judgment in a case opposing Chanel and a company marketing jewellery and accessories using buttons and belt buckles bearing Chanel trade marks,…
A federal court finds that it has jurisdiction over the Mexico-based defendants.A decades-long dispute over the intellectual property of a prominent Mexican painter will have to be heard in a United…
In a companion piece on this Blog, we examined how the Division Bench of the Delhi High Court in Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha v. Tech Square Engineering Pvt. Ltd., canceled the Indian registration…
In May 2026, a Division Bench of the High Court of Delhi in India passed a judgment that would intrigue legal practitioners focusing on territoriality-based trademark regimes. In Toyota Jidosha…
The recent Danish case discussed in the Kluwer Trademark Blog post once again highlighted the long-standing difficulty of protecting product shapes as trademarks. While the Danish Patent and…
A novel approach to trademark infringement was introduced by the Commercial Court of Kosovo in the recent Judgment KE. Nr. 868/25 of March 6, 2026 (“the Judgment”). In this case, the first-instance…
