To conclude our series highlighting recent Legal Updates that you may have missed, we look at cases where the tactics used by fashion and luxury companies to protect their brands failed to hit the ...

Chinese filings in the EU grew around 16% last year, but businesses in other major jurisdictions show signs of scaling back, ...

The key principle in this decision was that a trademark must diverge significantly from industry norms to possess the ...

The IP High Court referred to a 2008 Supreme Court ruling establishing that a composite mark must be assessed in its entirety ...

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We continue our series of pieces highlighting recent Legal Updates that you may have missed by looking at what works – and what doesn’t – when it comes to invoking Article 8(5) of the EU Trademark ...

A key finding was that the conflicting marks both conveyed the same precise and specific concept, namely that of a highly ...

While this opinion serves only as a recommendation to the Higher Courts, it clearly breaks away from current practice when it ...

Everything we covered on WTR over the past seven days, and all you need to know from the world of trademarks to set yourself ...

The overuse of ‘deception’, ‘negative impact’ or ‘misleading' effect as reasons to reject trademarks risks stifling ...