The court upheld findings that color served a safety function and that case qualified as exceptional under the Lanham Act.The Eighth Circuit affirmed a district court judgment canceling Weems…
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…
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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…
Article 132(1) of the EUTM Regulation 2017/1001 provides that an EU trade mark court before which an EUTM infringement action has been brought ‘shall stay the proceedings’ if an application for…
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…
Stay informed with our comprehensive roundup of the past month's headlines, all neatly compiled for you in one convenient post. Catch up on the latest news reported by the Kluwer IP Reporter.Bosnia…
