On 10 April 2025, Advocate General (AG) Cápeta delivered her opinion in the matter EUIPO v Nowhere, C-337/22 P, also referred to as APE TEES. The opinion is both surprising and concerning. If…
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) correctly found opposer’s mark highly descriptive, unsupported by sufficient evidence of acquired distinctiveness and ineligible for protection.
The U.S.…
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In a previous post titled Trademark Squatting in Kazakhstan: From Russia with Love, we explored how Swedish telecom giant Ericsson successfully defended its trademarks against a Russian company's…
As of September 14, 2022, disputes concerning domain names with the ccTLD for Türkiye – “.tr” – are resolved under the TRABİS (“TR Domain Name Information System”) framework by accredited Dispute…
The Eleventh Circuit let stand an injunction barring the use of "KRANK3D" for supplements, in a case brought by the holder of a "KRANKED" mark.
An Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals panel upheld a…
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This judgment by the GC (available in German and French) concerns three EUTM applications, one for the word "AESKUCARE" and two figurative marks with “AESKUCARE” as their dominant element. The…
The panel said that the district court properly analyzed the strength-of-mark factor as a question of law.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has affirmed a district court judgment that…
The plaintiff failed to show a likelihood of success on the merits of its trademark violation suit.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the district court’s denial of a preliminary…
