Legal Action / Law SuitA legal action is the first step of a legal proceeding between two parties. It is a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another and it contains a request of a court decision. |
Letter of CompletionA letter of completion is a last request to the debtor to hand over a final declaration, before submitting a claim. |
LicenseA licensing agreement is a consent by the rights owner to the use of their assets, in exchange for something. A license can be temporarily or territorially limited. Licenses (and rights on so called merchandising articles) are normally based on contracts. |
LicensingLicensing of intellectual property rights is regulated by the combination of rules governing the intellectual property rights, such as trademark, design as well as patent law and general contract law. |
Likelihood of ConfusionLikelihood of confusion means a situation where there is a risk that the public might believe that the goods and services in question come from the same undertaking or from economically linked undertakings. When deciding whether there is a likelihood of confusion between two marks, the similarity of the marks and the commercial relationship between the goods and/or services listed in the application need to be evaluated. The likelihood of confusion is judged according to the following criteria: identity or similarity of the other party's trademark, identity or similarity of the other party's goods or services and the distinctiveness of the earlier trademark. |
List of Goods and ServicesSee Nice Classification. |
Locarno ClassificationThe Locarno Classification is the international classification system of industrial designs. The agreement of establishing the classification is the result of a multilateral treaty which was founded at a conference held in Locarno in 1968. It allows to attribute designs in a largely uniform manner to different classes of goods. The Locarno Classification currently comprises 32 classes and 219 subclasses with detailed descriptions of goods. |