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.
In our latest round-up, we look at Panama Customs seizing around $83,000 worth of fake adidas and Louis Vuitton products, Elon Musk failing to dismiss X Social Media's infringement suit, and much more.
The second instalment in our series highlighting Legal Updates you may have missed explores recent successes for Canada Goose, Hermès, Lacoste and Skechers.
A fashion company has secured a landmark victory along with significant damages from the Beijing IP Court. The win breaks new ground in China and shows that courts are not afraid to apply the new Trademark Law
29 April 2016
A major new study released today has revealed that counterfeit and pirated goods represented up to 2.5% of world trade in 2013 – a figure that Antonio Campinos, president of the EU Intellectual Property Office, noted “is equivalent to combined GDP of the Czech Republic and Ireland”. Reflecting on this, BASCAP director Jeff Hardy has called on policymakers to do more to fight the scourge of counterfeiting.
18 April 2016
US Customs and Border Protection and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations has revealed that the total number of seized IP infringing products increased by nearly 25% in fiscal year 2015, with the value of detained goods breaking through the $1 billion barrier.
18 April 2016
In a counterfeiting case the defendants claimed that the goods were well-known fashion brands sold in a clearance sale caused by the bankruptcy of their firm. The first-instance court rejected their claim and imposed prison sentences on both defendants, which were upheld on appeal.
01 April 2016
The ECJ has dismissed an appeal against a General Court decision upholding an opposition by Adidas to an application to register a Community trademark using stripes on footwear.
21 March 2016
OHIM has dismissed an application for a declaration of invalidity brought against the mark HOT SOX, which was claimed to be descriptive and non-distinctive. The decision highlights the minimum requirement of distinctiveness for composite signs.
18 March 2016
WIPO has published its 2015 Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) statistics, evidencing a 4.6% increase in case filings compared to the previous year. The organisation attributes this rise to activity in new gTLDs, which is accurate but the figures only tell one part of the story.
18 March 2016
The owners of the G-STAR brand pursued a business – and its directors and former director – for infringing a raft of laws in relation to its products. The court found that the respondents had infringed the applicants’ trademarks and copyright, had committed the tort of passing off and were engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct.
15 March 2016
The Swiss Federal Supreme Court has held that INDIAN was an indication of origin for both motorcycles and clothing, but that INDIAN MOTORCYCLE was an indication of origin for motorcycles only, and not for clothing.
14 March 2016
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