This year’s World Intellectual Property Day is dedicated to female innovators, honouring a significant number of women that are pushing the boundaries in the fields of science, technology, and design and promoting their innovating ideas, courage and curiosity, which help shape the world into a better place.

                                                                                                                         Weiterlesen über EMPOWERING WOMEN: FEMALE INNOVATION AND ITS LEGACY

On 20 February 2018, the General Court of the European Union (GC) upheld the previous decision of Board of Apeal of EUIPO (BoA) when it found the trademark “BEPOST” and the trademarks “POST” and “ePOST” to be sufficiently visually and aurally different to rule out a likelihood of confusion.                                                                                                                         

                                                                                            "POST"    

                                         EU trademark No. 5850193            German trademark No. 30012966                                                                                                

                                                (word/device mark)                                   (word mark)

                                                                                             vs.

                                                                                      “BEPOST”

                                                                  EU trademark application No. 008897829

                                                                                    (word mark) Weiterlesen über General Court of the European Union states no likelihood of confusion between “BEPOST” and “(e)POST” trademarks

On 18 January 2018, the General Court of the European Union (GC) upheld the decision of the Board of Appeal in the case T-804/16. LG´s application for the EU word mark “Dual Edge” was found to lack distinctive character and was therefore refused to be registered by the EUIPO.

Samsung Galaxy S8, Source: Pixabay Weiterlesen über LG´s Trademark „Dual Edge“ is descriptive in the EU

On 20 December 2017, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) gave its opinion on the “Champagner Sorbet” case. The Court stated the conditions of using the Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) for “Champagne” on a product which only contained 12% of Champagne.

Source: Pixabay Weiterlesen über CJEU on conditions of using “Champagne” in the name of a product that only contains a certain percentage of it