Organisation: EUIPO

The Fifth Board of Appeal held the figurative BET365 mark did not lack distinctiveness for specific goods and services in Classes 16, 35 and 42, after the mark was refused for, among other things, betting and gambling services in Class 41.

18 July 2024

In the final instalment of our series highlighting recent Legal Updates that you may have missed, we take a closer look at the times the EUIPO Board of Appeal has erred in its judgment.

17 July 2024

The third instalment in our series highlighting Legal Updates you may have missed asks what we can learn from recent trademark defeats for Kurt Geiger, Hermès, Timberland and Vans.

16 July 2024

Featured in WTR Special Report Q2 2024: Training your defence: the sports brand playbook

15 July 2024

The second instalment in our series highlighting Legal Updates you may have missed explores recent successes for Canada Goose, Hermès, Lacoste and Skechers.

12 July 2024

We kick off our latest series highlighting Legal Updates you may have missed by examining the lessons learned from unsuccessful attempts to register non-traditional position marks.

11 July 2024

The EUIPO Fifth Board of Appeal has annulled the EU trademark PRISECCO based on the prior protected destination of origin ‘Prosecco’.

05 July 2024

The decision is interesting in that the Board of Appeal took judicial notice of many “well-known facts” concerning the jewellery sector.

02 July 2024

In a “particularly severe” decision, the General Court confirmed that there was no likelihood of confusion between TOUR DE X and the earlier TOUR DE FRANCE marks.

27 June 2024

In this dispute between competing breweries Anheuser-Busch and Amstel, the court found that ‘ultra’ was a generic, laudatory term which was incapable of differentiating the commercial origin of the goods.

26 June 2024