Good news for trademark owners! From July 2011 it will be easier to prevent the registration of identical or similar marks thanks to the launch of the opposition procedure in Italy.
[Read More]Posted by Chiara Garofoli on Thursday 09 Jun 2011
IPT Italy at the 2011 INTA General Meeting in San Francisco [Read More]
Posted by Gianluigi Marino on Tuesday 17 May 2011
Today the EU General Court decided a trade mark case brought by Formula One Licensing BV and excluded a risk of confusion between the F1 Logotype and the trade mark F1 - LIVE for goods and services related to the Formula Once motor racings.[Read More]
Posted by Chiara Garofoli on Thursday 17 Feb 2011
By judgement of 14 September 2010 the European Court of Justice has said its final word on the age-old Lego's claim concerning the registration as a trademark of its famous toy-brick.
In April 1996, Lego filed an application for a Community trademark on the very well known toy-brick before the European trademark office, the OHIM. Initially, OHIM held that the sign had acquired distinctive character in the European Union and did not consist exclusively of the shape of goods which is necessary to obtain a technical result. Hence, the registration was granted in October 1999.
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Posted by Elena Martini on Monday 18 Oct 2010