Of Sea Lions and SEAT Leons: Swiss Court Weighs in on Automobile TrademarksHow different do “animal trademarks” need to be to coexist in the Swiss market? A recent decision from the Swiss Federal…
The judgment of the General Court (GC) concerns a textbook case and addresses the typical arguments in trademark conflicts in the cosmetics sector.
Facts
The Applicant, Azalee Cosmetics, applied…
In the assessment of the similarity of signs, visual, phonetic and conceptual similarity are evaluated and it is not necessary that similarity exist in all three aspects, one can suffice. Nonetheless…
Registering and using a trade mark representing an animal is a common practice in the clothing industry. Consequently, proprietors often oppose younger signs which show the same animal. We can for…
In the US to indicate two things which are truly… incomparable, one says “oranges and apples”. In continental EU, we say “apples and pears”.
This case deals indeed with apples and pears.
On 31…
Three recent General Court judgments concerning oppositions between trademark in the pharmaceutical and cosmetic fields have caught our attention. In all three cases, the marks were found similar…
