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...
by manuel.roche | Jan 31, 2018 | All, Trademarks
Schweppes is a worldwide famous brand for tonic waters created in 1793. One trademark, one product, one origin? Not since the partial assignment of the trademark in several European Union countries (including the United Kingdom) to The Coca-Cola Company, while...
by manuel.roche | Jan 15, 2018 | All, Designs, Patents, Trademarks
On the 26th of September of 2017, the Court of Appeals of Paris issued the final decision in the case that lead to the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union of the 7th of July of 2016 that we commented here (Royalty for a patent: what do you really...
