Important messages for parties 1. Court of Justice 19 March 2020 Owing to the unprecedented health crisis that we are currently experiencing, the Court of Justice is obliged temporarily to change its working arrangements. Judicial activity continues, but priority is of course given to those cases that are particularly urgent Read More
In 2015, Italian entrepreneurs filed an application with the European Intellectual Property Office ("EUIPO") for registration of the following EU trade mark, which they had been using, for, among others, goods in Classes 18 and 25. A Dutch company filed a notice of opposition to the registration of that figurative mark, Read More
In 2004 and 2005 Skype applied to the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) for registration of the figurative and word signs SKYPE as a Community trade mark for audiovisual goods, telephony and photography goods and computer services relating to software or to the creation or hosting of Read More
The word “monaco” designates the origin or geographical destination of the goods and services concerned and is devoid of distinctive character. In 2010, the government of the Principality of Monaco was granted, by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), an international registration covering the territory of the EU. That registration, Read More
The graphic representation of that cube does not involve a technical solution which would prevent it from being protected as a mark. At the request of Seven Towns Ltd, a UK company which manages inter alia intellectual property rights relating to the ‘Rubik’s Cube’, the EU’s Trademark Office (OHIM) registered, Read More
