自他識別力

EUIPO

Consumers encountering the contested sign for alcoholic beverages, food-and-drink services or temporary accommodation are likely to call the reputed DG mark to mind – 3

As regards the concept of ‘taking unfair advantage of the distinctive character or the repute of the trade mark’, also r...
ASEAN

Simple Advertising Phrases

Simple advertising or promotional phrases and slogans that contain a standard sales message or information about a produ...
ASEAN

Patterns and Surface Designs

Patterns are often applied to the surface of certain products or used in flat products such as textile materials and fab...
ASEAN

Unintelligible Signs

Signs expressed in characters that are prima facie unintelligible to the general public in a particular country may be a...
USPTO

TTAB Upholds Section 2(e)(5) Functionality Refusal of Office Chair Wheel Configuration

Our determination of functionality is generally guided by the analysis first applied in In re Morton-Norwich Prods., Inc...
EUIPO

The term ‘robotaxi’ is recognised in English and German with the meaning of a self-driving taxi or electronically controlled taxi

In present-day commercial and technological language, the public is accustomed to terms designating automated or autonom...
EUIPO

The consumer will associate the number ‘4’ with a quantifiable measure such as size which corresponds to a characteristic of the goods

The contested sign is a figurative mark, more particularly a stylised numeral mark that consists of a bold, stylised num...
シンガポール

Applicable legal principles: Marks-similarity assessment – 1

(i) The three aspects of similarity (i.e. visual, aural and conceptual similarities) are meant to guide the court’s inqu...
オーストラリア

BASMATI rice No possesses a certified character or indicates goods only from the Basmati Growing Area

The survey evidence does not overcome that difficulty. It indicates that many respondents had heard of BASMATI in connec...
オーストラリア

‘Fluid film’ may be suggestive of an attribute of the product

The Trade Mark is comprised of the well-known English words, fluid and film, arranged in that order. As such, it has an ...