On July 12, 2006, the European Court of First Instance ruled that there was no likelihood of confusion between the two marks above. For the Court, the unusual merger of Marco and Rossi in a single word, without any blank, visually and intellectually brought to a whole without being divided. The distinction between Marco and …
Any company wishing to develop an activity in China has to face the question of the translation of its mark in Chinese characters. The vast majority of large international marks translated their names, in order to render their approach to the Chinese market easier. Two solutions arise. The first consists in using Chinese characters that …
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On August 7, 2006, the OHIM Board of Appeals retained that SLIMMING WORLD would clearly and immediately be understood by the relevant consumers as a generic indication informing the consumer that the services and products in question are concerned with making or becoming slim. The link between the sign and the products and services was …
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The Paris First Degree Court has decided that emails sent from package-internet@hotmail.com address for commercial prospecting purpose should be considered as trademark infringement. For the Court, a medium care consumer would wrongly consider that the emails in concerns have been sent with the help of the HOTMAIL trademark holder. Non-authorized use of a third party …
DADVSI partially censored but finally enacted ! After its examination by the French Senate and the National Assembly, a few Parliament members referred the law to the French Constitutional Council. During July, the Council censored 3 points of the law: -The notion of interoperability was unclear and then, could not constitute a case of exemption …
On February 24, 2006, the Paris Court of Appeal considered that clothing should be regarded as similar with school supplies (stationary). For the Judge, whereas the nature, function and distribution networks of these products are not identical, the consumer will consider that they have the same origin because of the tendency of some clothing companies to …
On July 18, 2006, the ECJ confirmed the Court of First Instance and upheld that women bags and women shoes have a different purpose. As shoes are used to dress feet whereas bags are only used to carry objects, these goods are not interchangeable and not in competition. For the Court, the search …
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