インド India’s Trademark Registry Accepts Its First Smell Trademark – 1
Word marks are more easily perceptible and a large number of variations around the same word may get registered as diffe...
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USPTO TTAB Finds TURNKEY STORAGE Merely Descriptive of Self-Storage Facilities
There is no dispute that Applicant has invested in promoting its self‑storage services and has generated millions in rev...
EUIPO George Orwell – trademark law cannot be used to recreate a perpetual monopoly once copyright protection has ended – 6
The objective of Article 7(1)(e) EUTMR is to prevent the exclusive and permanent rights that a trade mark confers from s...
EUIPO George Orwell – trademark law cannot be used to recreate a perpetual monopoly once copyright protection has ended – 5
Cultural heritage is morally violated by trade mark registration if the public would find the registration offensive in ...
EUIPO George Orwell – trademark law cannot be used to recreate a perpetual monopoly once copyright protection has ended – 3
In particular, information included in dictionaries has been considered as being in the nature of well-known facts becau...
EUIPO George Orwell – trademark law cannot be used to recreate a perpetual monopoly once copyright protection has ended – 2
– Period for which the author has been known: if the author has been known for a long period of time, even if they are d...
EUIPO George Orwell – trademark law cannot be used to recreate a perpetual monopoly once copyright protection has ended – 1
The non-exhaustive and non-cumulative criteria that have been identified are the following:– Fame and recognition of the...
EUIPO Consumers focus on the verbal elements rather than on the representation of the ice cream itself on the packaging – 3
According to case-law, the weakly / non-distinctive character of an element that is common to two signs reduces the rela...
USPTO BOWENS for Guitars is Primarily Merely a Surname
Section 2(e)(4) of the Trademark Act precludes registration of a proposed mark on the Principal Register that is “primar...
USPTO KAHWA not Generic for, or Descriptive of, Cafés and Coffee Shops – 3
Under the doctrine of foreign equivalents, foreign words used as a mark are translated into English and then tested for ...