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....
Patents, Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs) and the Unitary Patent Court (UPC) Trade Marks and Designs Copyright Exhaustion of Rights Please click on one of the hyperlinks above to go to the particular guidance note. The overarching intention of the...
Introduction Trade marks may be protected by registration at national or regional (such as at the EU) trade mark offices. Registered trade marks provide the holder the right to exclude others from using the same or a similar trade marks for the same or similar...
With respect to intellectual property, one of the important proposals in the draft Withdrawal Agreement was the creation of “parallel” UK rights, without the need for re-examination, for owners of EU trade marks or registered Community designs,...
Changes introduced as a result of the new European Trade Mark Directive and Regulation in March 2016 came into force on 1 October 2017 and in particular trade marks will no longer have to be graphically represented. Graphic Representation New trade marks must now...
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