Part 1 of this year’s retrospective provided a general overview over the GC case law from 2023 with numbers and a special focus on genuine use cases. Part 2 now focuses on weak marks. The…
The year is ending and so it is time, once again, to look at what has been coming out of the General Court (GC) over the past 12 months. While the numbers here are only approximate, resulting…
In October 2023, the Danish Supreme Court ruled in a trademark case concerning the trademark “TREK”. In recent years the Danish Supreme Court has rarely dealt with trademark disputes (due to the…
Whether referred to as image rights, personality rights, right of publicity, portrait rights or simply likeness, having control over the use of your “image” can be an important right that – in one…
The parodist could not rely on First Amendment protection because it used the famous sneakers as a source identifier.
The maker of a sneaker that parodied a famous brand of skateboard-friendly kicks…
To ensure you don’t miss out on interesting IP law developments reported on our other IP blogs, we will, on a regular basis, provide you with an overview of the most-read posts from each of our IP…
A recent decision by the General Court deals with the weight of figurative elements in the overall impression of a sign.
Facts
The applicant applied for the registration of the following sign as an…
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.
Angola joins DESIGNclass and expands TMClass…
Many of us who have done a PhD, remember that time around the beginning of the second year when anxiety and insecurity start substituting the passion and enthusiasm. We all needed a safe space…
The marks are generic both as to “Carnival” and the geographic locations “St Thomas” and “Virgin Islands.”
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed a lower court decision denying the…
