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...
by manuel.roche | Feb 28, 2018 | All, Designs, Trademarks
The three-dimensional trademark, filed for sweets and consisting of an empty and unlabeled TIC TAC box, although considered as a weak trademark, is opposable to a Community design consisting of a full candy box, bearing figurative and verbal elements. First of all, an...
by manuel.roche | Feb 16, 2018 | All, Trademarks
This has now become a real saga regarding southern France, not by famous writer Marcel Pagnol, but by the French Patent and Trademark Office (INPI) and IP lawyers. Let’s recall that since 2014, Article L721-2 of the French Intellectual Property Code states that must...
