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Trademark Insight 05/2023 – European Union & Germany // Country Focus - Italy
20 July 2023
Trademark Insight. With this format, we inform you about current trade mark decisions at regular intervals.
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Trademark Insight 04/2023 – European Union & Germany
09 June 2023
Trademark Insight. With this format, we inform you about current trade mark decisions at regular intervals.
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Trademark Insight 02/2023 – European Union & Germany
21 March 2023
Trademark Insight. With this format, we will be informing you at regular intervals about current trademark law decisions of the EUIPO, European Union Courts, and the German courts. Each...
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Trademark Insight - January
10 February 2023
Trademark Insight. With this format, we will be informing you at regular intervals about current trademark law decisions of German courts, the EUIPO and the European Union Courts. Each...
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Trademark Insight - December 2022
21 December 2022
Trademark Insight. With this format, we will be informing you at regular intervals about current trademark law decisions of German courts, the EUIPO and the European Union Courts. Each...
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Invalidity for bad faith: Imitation of a historical trademark only permissible under strict conditions
29 August 2022
According to EUIPO, a historical trademark can still enjoy residual protection even if no (new) goods and services have been offered under it for a long time. If such a historical trademark ...
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CJEU: Interruption of the forfeiture period only in the case of serious legal action
25 July 2022
Trademark proceedings concerning the rights to the trade name and trademark "HEITEC" were brought before the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH), which in turn referred four...
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German FCJ on the exploitation of the reputation of geographical indications as collective trademarks
19 November 2021
The possibility to protect geographical indications as collective or individual trademarks exists, in principle, independently of the system for the protection of geographical indications...
Insights and Analysis
Color codes need to be learned - SIENNA not descriptive for tobacco products according to GC
20 July 2021
According to the GC, color designations are not descriptive if the designation - in this case SIENNA - is not commonly used in the relevant industry and the public is therefore not aware of ...
