Yesterday, 2 July 2020, the European Commission announced that it will refer Romania to the CJEU for not implementing the Trade Mark Directive (Directive (EU) 2015/2436) – see here.
While the…
Should a registered EU trademark which consists of a descriptive term (in one of the EU languages) be capable to prevent registration of a later EUTM which is fanciful but happens to contain the same…
The UK High Court has laid out its ruling following CJEU’s decision on SkyKick.
To recap, the CJEU ruled that overly broad specifications will not automatically render a registered mark invalid and…
CJEU’s recent preliminary ruling in Gömböc Case C-237/19 highlights assessment criteria regarding the registrability of shapes of goods as trademarks. The shape of the Gömböc was refused trademark…
Red Bull GmbH v Big Horn UK Limited & Ors [2020] EWHC 124 (Ch)
This case is an interesting commentary on the route that rights holders can pursue in order to challenge lookalike products…
(Updated as of 21.05.2020 due to further changes in legislation and to provide clarifications)
Austria, as many other countries, adopted legal measures to extend deadlines with a view to the COVID-19…
As has already been reported on this blog (see here), the Court of Justice has annulled the decision of the General Court saying that the refusal of EUTM application FACK JU GÖHTE for being …
On 25 February 2020, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have officially withdrawn their trade mark applications for the words “SUSSEX ROYAL” and “SUSSEX ROYAL THE FOUNDATION OF THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF…
“What the FACK just happened?!”, some thought, when the CJEU delivered its judgment on the registrability of the trademark FACK JU GÖHTE on 27 February 2020.
In case you are unfamiliar with the case,…
