Background Booking.com applied to register a number of applications containing the term “booking.com”. Registration of these trade marks was initially refused by the USPTO for being generic for the services for which protection was sought (for example,...
There is a successful German comedy film that has been followed by not one but two sequels. Would you expect the title of such a comedy to be registerable as a trade mark? You might, but the title of the comedy is “Fack Ju Göhte” and, basically, was...
Background Sky is a well-known telecommunications company which provides television and broadband Internet services as well as telephone services to consumers and businesses both in the UK and overseas. Sky owns a number of trade mark registrations for the word...
There has been much discussion over the past few years on the effect of Brexit on intellectual property rights within the UK. The precise outcomes were, for a long time, unknown due to the uncertainty regarding the type of Brexit that would be delivered. It is now...
The updated guidance note on Brexit and IP provided by the UKIPO makes it clear that the aim of the Government is still for Brexit to cause as little disruption as possible with respect to IP rights. However, despite a ‘no-deal’ Brexit being voted down earlier this...
Does consuming two different types of goods at the same time increase their similarity? Asolo filed an application for registration of a European Union trade mark in 1997 for the word mark ‘FLÜGEL’ (‘wings’ in English) in classes 32 and 33....
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