Trademark and in the recitals of the Council Regulation (EC) no. 6/2002 of 12 December 2001 on Community designs. Therefore, it is applied by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO
“Emmentaler” from the International Bureau of the WIPO for cheeses with a protected designation of origin Emmentaler (Class 29) – this registration designated the EU and was therefore notified to EUIPO
The EUIPO First Board of Appeal has held that the digital mark applied for by the prestigious French luxury fashion house does not meet the distinctiveness requirement of Article 7(1)(b) of
Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) has published the findings of its 2023 study on ‘European Citizens and Intellectual Property: Perception, Awareness and Behavior.’ The study aims to gain a better
Last 21 June, the General Court of the EU annulled two EUIPO decisions - one of them partially – that were favourable to the Spanish company Ausonia, which had filed an opposition against the
The European Commission has accepted the requests submitted by 15 EU Member States to assess the proposed acquisition of Autotalks by Qualcomm under the EU Merger Regulation (‘EUMR'). These referral ...
In a recent decision, the EUIPO First Board of Appeal annulled the three-dimensional trade mark registration of the Rubik's Cube. The case, R 850/2022-1 followed an action by Verdes Innovations S.A
possible registration of non-traditional marks, such as scent or sound marks. But, it remains to be seen how the EUIPO will interpret the new language that replaces the graphic representation requirement
The EU General Court annulled a series of European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) decisions centring on halloumi cheese, in four judgments delivered on Friday, November 23. In 2012
As of 15 May 2023, the images of trade marks from the non-EU TM5 Offices have been integrated into TMview, the EUIPO’s artificial intelligence (AI)-driven image search tool. As the world’s largest