It should be remembered that substantially all the trademark laws prevent from the registration - without permission of the entitled person - of the name, pseudonym or image of famous people, even deceased ones (in [...]

The Chinese courts! However, Western companies struggle to have recognized the status of a Famous Brand (which can also be protected for products or services not similar to those of the core business). Recently, Peppa [...]

There has been a long debate about  the protection of positioning marks which, in recent years, have been officially introduced into EU legislation. Protection is aimed at the position occupied by an element considered distinctive. [...]

In the evaluation of the correct defense of a brand, today the diffusion on the internet and on social networks can play an unsuspected role. For example, Apple filed Opposition against a trademark consisting of [...]

A decision of the Euipo Opposition Division (Please case) argues that in order to prove the reputation of the mark in a given territory, a knowledge threshold is necessary, to be assessed mainly on the [...]

After a period of closure for reasons of public order, the local Intellectual Property Office reopens for the registration of trademarks only. It is mandatory to carry out novelty searches before the filing, after which [...]

The modernization rules of the American Trademark Law should be approved soon: they are more stringent in particular for the proof of use of the trademark. In addition to the appeal to the Commission or [...]

Presto dovrebbero essere approvate le norme di modernizzazione della Legge Marchi americana, più stringenti in particolare per la prova dell’uso del marchio. Oltre al ricorso alla Commissione  o alla Corte Distrettuale  da parte del terzo [...]

With his establishment, President Maduro had made Venezuela go back in time also in the field of IP, for example by returning to the local classification of goods and services as far as trademarks are [...]

In the reply to formal question n. 546 of 12 November 2020, the Income Revenue Agency  found that the sale between companies of a set of assets consisting of a set of trademarks as well [...]