by manuel.roche | Jun 29, 2018 | All, Copyright, Designs, Patents, Trademarks
Early June 2018, the European Union has initiated proceedings before the World Trade Organisation against China for failing to respect the intellectual property rights of European companies. Observing that “European companies coming to China are forced to grant...
by manuel.roche | Jun 15, 2018 | All, Trademarks
The footballer (soccer player) Lionel Messi finally obtained the registration of his trademark MESSI but had to contest the opposition based on the earlier mark MASSI for 6 years and all the way to the General Court. The Board of Appeal of the EUIPO had in fact held...
by manuel.roche | May 31, 2018 | All, Trademarks
The revocation of the rights attached to a mark is incurred if the trademark has not been put to genuine use within an uninterrupted five-year period following the registration. Nevertheless, the later start or resumption of real and genuine use before a period of...
by manuel.roche | Apr 30, 2018 | All, Copyright, Internet
In 2014, we told you about the surprising case of photographer David J. Slater and the famous Monkey Selfies (here). David Slater had filed a take-down request to remove from Wikimedia the photographs he had brought back from Indonesia. At that time, Wikimedia...
by manuel.roche | Apr 14, 2018 | All, Trademarks
So far, the affixing in France of a third-party’s trademark to products (or their packaging) for export was not considered to infringe the trademark owner’s rights if the products bearing the mark were not sold in France or Europe but were intended for sale in a...
