2024 World IP Day - Building Our Common Future with Innovation and Creativity

Beitragsdatum: 
26. April 2024
Tags: 
#worldipday, #intellectualproperty, #trademarks, #sustainable, #LexDellmeier, #designs, #iplaw

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World IP Day 2024

Over the past 17 days, we posted a picture a day mentioning that #LexDellmeier supports #World IP Day. Well, today is the day! Implemented 24 years ago to promote and increase general understanding of #intellectual property (IP), World IP Day is dedicated to a different IP related theme each year and this year, it focuses on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals –  of which there are a total of 17, introduced to you over the past days. Weiterlesen über 2024 World IP Day - Building Our Common Future with Innovation and Creativity

Pilot program of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) allows amendments to the identifications of goods and services in trade mark registrations due to technology evolution

Beitragsdatum: 
25. September 2015
Categories: 
Intellectual Property
Tags: 
Intellectual Property, Trademark law, Trademarks, USPTO
 

HOT - Registration of laudatory signs as trade marks

Beitragsdatum: 
23. September 2015
Categories: 
Decisions
Tags: 
Decision, Distinctiveness, European General Court, Intellectual Property, Trademarks
The European General Court (EGC) rules that a word with laudatory connotations may be registered as a trade mark if it does not specifically describe the goods and services and not all of its meanings are exclusively laudatory. (Judgement: T-611/13 of 15 July 2015)
Background of the Case and Subject Matter

BMW’s trade mark rights infringed by spare parts business

Beitragsdatum: 
18. September 2015
Categories: 
Decisions
Tags: 
Decision, German Federal Court, German Trademarks, Intellectual Property, Likelihood of confusion
The German Federal Court of Justice ruled on two aspects of trade mark law in its recent decision. The conclusion of the Court was, firstly, that a mark which is registered in black and white is not identical with a mark in colour unless the difference is insignificant. Secondly, the production of plaques consisting merely of a car producer’s trade mark falls within the monopoly granted by the exclusivity right of the trade mark proprietor.    (Judgement: I Z 153/14 of 12 March 2015)

Counterfeiting Report 2015

Beitragsdatum: 
19. Juli 2015
Categories: 
Intellectual Property
Tags: 
Counterfeiting, Counterfeiting Report 2015, Product Piracy
The Situation Report on Counterfeiting in the European Union (EU), prepared by Europol and OHIM through the European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights is a first try to capture the complex reality of counterfeiting in the EU in 2015. 1. Introduction

LEGO S/A successfully defends its mini-figures

Beitragsdatum: 
17. Juli 2015
Categories: 
Brand
Tags: 
Best-Lock, Lego, three-dimensional trademarks
The European General Court (EGC) upholds the registrations of the shape of the Lego mini-figures as Community Trademarks (CTMs) (Judgments dated 16 June 2015; Cases T-395/14 and T-396/14). Background of the Case and Subject Matter

International work exchange through the Student Trainee Exchange Programme

Beitragsdatum: 
16. Juli 2015
Categories: 
Uncategorized
This year LexDellmeier is for the first time a part of the European Law Students’ Association’s Student Trainee Exchange Programme.

EGC: SWATCH vs. SWATCHBALL

Beitragsdatum: 
23. Juni 2015
Categories: 
Brand
Tags: 
European General Court, Likelihood of confusion, SWATCH, SWATCHBALL
The European General Court (EGC) dissmissed the appeal of the Swatch AG against the Community Trademark (CTM) application “SWATCHBALL“ by Panvision Europe Ltd (Judgment dated 19 May 2015; Case No.: T‑71/14). Background of the Case and Subject Matter

EGC: Pink Lady vs. English Pink

Beitragsdatum: 
17. Juni 2015
Categories: 
Brand
Tags: 
English Pink, European General Court, Likelihood of confusion, Pink Lady
The European General Court (EGC) decided that the decision of the BoA has to be annulled, but not altered   because it did not mention an earlier decision of a Community Trademark (CTM) court (Judgment dated 25 March 2015; Case No.: T‑378/13). Background of the Case and Subject Matter

Louis Vuitton loses its EU trademark protection for the chequerboard pattern

Beitragsdatum: 
18. Mai 2015
Categories: 
Uncategorized
The European General Court (EGC) decided that the chequerboard pattern device mark of Louis Vuitton is not distinctibe and therefore has to be declared null and void  (Judgment dated 21 April 2015; Case No.: T‑360/12). Background of the Case and Subject Matter

Trademarks: “SKY” and “Skype” confusingly similar

Beitragsdatum: 
13. Mai 2015
Categories: 
Uncategorized
The EGC decided that a likelihood of confusion between the word device/mark “Skype” and the word mark “SKY” exists (Judgment dated 5 May 2015; Case No.: T‑184/13). Background of the Case and Subject Matter