This post is the first of four looking at the decision of Smith J in Lidl & another v Tesco & another [2023] EWHC 873 (Ch). It will focus on the s.10(3) trade mark infringement elements of…
The court found that the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s (TTAB) decision was supported by substantial evidence.
A real estate brokerage’s proposed mark was likely to be confused with a prior…
A long legal battle over the status of “the greatest of all cheeses,” comes to an apparent end.
A federal court in Virginia correctly relied on standards of identity written by the Food and Drug…
All trademark news that you might have missed last month in one convenient overview. Read up on the latest news reported by the Kluwer IP Reporter.
TIPO publishes Taiwan-Japan Concordance List of…
Like many companies in the fashion industry, Christian Louboutin did not seek design patent protection for its shoe designs in Brazil. The red sole trademark application was filed in 2009 in Brazil,…
The Chinese company acted with the requisite bad faith under the ACPA when it bought and re-registered the domain name, which was identical to several registered trademarks owned by the insurance and…
District court failed to draw inferences in favor of nonmoving party in finding no likelihood of confusion.
The federal district court in Miami erred in awarding summary judgment for a title…
Read up on the latest news reported by the Kluwer IP Reporter here.
Albanian IP Office implements CP9
The General Directorate of Industrial Property (GDIP) of the Republic of Albania has implemented…
As expected, in its decision of 21 December 2022 (T-44/22), the General Court (GC) upheld the refusal of the packaging design shown above on the right as a trademark for tobacco products…
At a time when New Year’s resolutions to exercise more fizzle out for lack of motivation, many people realise what the General Court (GC) already knew: sport and entertainment do not necessarily have…
