CJEU

On 18 January 2024, in case C-367/21 (still no English version) the CJEU ruled again on the exhaustion of EU trade mark rights (following its five rulings of 17 November 2022 including C-175/21…

  Will the CJEU take a deep dive into the right of possession? The European Court of Justice will have to deal with this question following a reference from the German Federal Supreme Court (Decision…

We UK lawyers view with interest the developments in the “Brexit cases”, resulting in appeals to the CJEU in 3 cases, as discussed in various previous posts on this blog, the latest being the summary…

On 25 January 2024 the CJEU issued the long-awaited judgement in the already famous AUDI case (C-334/22). This judgment confirms the possibility of Audi trade mark infringement in terms of the legal…

On AG Szpunar’s Opinion in Case C-801/22 P   BASMATI was the first of the appeals to the CJEU in the three „Brexit cases“. The other two are APE TEES (EUIPO v Nowhere, C-337/22 P) and SHOPPI (Shopify…

To which extent can the General Court review decisions by the EUIPO Boards of Appeal (BoA) is an issue never properly addressed, and one that the CJEU has found to be “significant with respect to the…

Registrability of Works of Art as Trademarks   Recently, the European Union Intellectual Property Office ("EUIPO") and the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office ("HIPO") have been asked in several…

Since the introduction on 2019 of the filtering mechanism according to which the CJEU has to  decide whether or not allow an appeal to proceed in cases that have already been considered twice (such…

This is about how generative AI could affect our writing: It seems that generative AI is good at creating clear and plain language, it can put difficult matters into simple terms. This ability…