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LinkedIn X Facebook YouTube Trademark UEFA’s road to ‘EURO 2024’: Turbulences caused by descriptive elements Aron Laszlo ( Oppenheim Legal ) / May 3, 2024 April 30, 2024 / Leave a comment UEFA, governing body of European football (a role that came into spotlight in the recent Super League case, not an IP case, see C-333/21), is slowly turning their attention to Germany, where the European football championship will be held this summer. The tournament’s official name is ‘(UEFA) EURO 2024’, which should come as no surprise,… Continue reading News Trademark News: What you might have missed in April 2024 Kluwer IP Reporter / May 1, 2024 May 1, 2024 / Leave a comment All trademark news that you might have missed last month in one convenient overview. Read up on the latest news reported by the Kluwer IP Reporter. Australia implements Madrid Goods and Services list With effect from 26 March 2024 the Intellectual Property Office of Australia (IP Australia) transitioned from the current Trade Marks Goods and… Continue reading Non Use , United Kingdom Lidl v Tesco – evergreening and non-use revocation Julius Stobbs , Emma Dixon , Lucy Skelton ( Stobbs IP ) / April 17, 2024 April 24, 2024 / Leave a comment In the third (and final) of our blogs reporting on the UK Court of Appeal decision in Lidl v Tesco, we examine the findings in relation to non-use revocation. At first instance, the judge found that certain trade mark registrations filed by Lidl in 1995, 2002, 2005 and 2007 for its ‘logo without text’ (the… Continue reading EUIPO , EUTM , News , Unitary character EUIPO Executive Director’s referral to the Grand Board – Something the Grand Board has been asked does not sound quite right Sara Parrello , Fabio Angelini ( Bugnion S.p.A ) / April 15, 2024 April 15, 2024 / Leave a comment A few days ago, we reported that the Executive Director (ED) of the EUIPO had referred questions to the Grand Board of Appeal (see here) . The full referral has now been published (see here) so that stakeholders can present observations to the Grand Board under Article 37(6) EUTMDR. The referral regards the decision by… Continue reading Copyright Lidl v Tesco: The Court of Appeal reverses copyright infringement decision Julius Stobbs , Emma Dixon ( Stobbs IP ) / April 8, 2024 April 8, 2024 / Leave a comment This is the second of three blogs examining the recent UK Court of Appeal decision in Lidl v Tesco[1]. As reported in our first blog, the Court of Appeal upheld the High Court’s finding of trade mark infringement and passing off by Tesco in respect of Tesco’s use of a blue and yellow sign for… Continue reading EUIPO , EUTM , News , Unitary character Breaking news! The Executive Director asks the Grand Board if an appeal is required to allow conversion of a refused EUTM. Sara Parrello , Fabio Angelini ( Bugnion S.p.A ) / April 3, 2024 April 3, 2024 / Leave a comment On April 2nd, the EUIPO has publicly announced the first referral by the Executive Director to the Grand Board of Appeal pursuant to Article 159(4)(l) of the EUTMR n. 2017/1001 in conjunction with Article 37(4) and (5) of EUTMDR n. 2018/625 (see at https://www.euipo.europa.eu/es/news/first-referral-of-questions-by-the-executive-director-to-the-grand-board-of-appeal ). The main issue regards the Board of Appeal (BOA) decision… Continue reading News Trademark News: What you might have missed in March 2024 Kluwer IP Reporter / April 2, 2024 April 2, 2024 / Leave a comment All trademark news that you might have missed last month in one convenient overview. Read up on the latest news reported by the Kluwer IP Reporter. Belize’s trademark data now available on TMview With effect from 26 February 2024, the Belize Intellectual Property Office (BELIPO) made its trade mark data available via TMview, an online… Continue reading Case law , Passing Off , United Kingdom The UK Court of Appeal allows a Lidl trade mark to go a long way Julius Stobbs , Emma Dixon ( Stobbs IP ) / April 2, 2024 April 2, 2024 / Leave a comment This is the first of three blog posts examining the UK Court of Appeal’s decision in the highly publicised dispute between Lidl and Tesco, concerning Tesco’s use of a blue and yellow sign (the Tesco Sign”) for its Clubcard promotions. In a decision handed down on 19 March 2024, the Court of Appeal upheld the… Continue reading Cyprus , European Union , General Court Registration of the protected designation of origin HALLOUMI” in the EU – The General Court comes to the rescue of the European Commission and of the Republic of Cyprus Benjamin Fontaine ( Plasseraud ) / March 27, 2024 March 27, 2024 / Leave a comment My 20-year old son Victor has started reading Homer’s Iliad. When he is done, I will suggest him the reading of the whole HALLOUMI story, which is as epic as the ancient poems. Epics are the stories on geographical indications from this part of Europe. The Greeks fought fiercely (and successfully) to consolidate a GI… Continue reading The Netherlands , Trade name ‘Don’t fence me in’: what if your locally used trade name is in between one proprietor’s earlier trade name and a corresponding younger trade mark? – the finale of the Classic Coach Company case Julius Stobbs ( Stobbs IP ) and Gino van Roeyen ( LAWNCH ) / March 25, 2024 March 25, 2024 / Leave a comment In her ‘Happy new year‘ (30 December 2022) post on this blog ‘Trademarks in Luxembourg‘ Verena von Bomhard shortly referred to the ECJ’s Classic Coach (C-112/21) decision of 2 June 2022 as relating to ‘the complex relationship between trademarks and earlier unregistered local and trade name rights‘. In the meantime, the matter returned to the… Continue reading Posts navigation 1 2 3 › » Get Blog Posts in your Inbox! 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