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The Russo-Ukrainian War Has Bolstered Ukraine’s Nonstate Alliance Network

President Vladimir Putin and Russia have given Ukraine an excuse to provide a haven for organizations aimed at destroying the current Russian state...

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Brazil – Christian Louboutin victory protects red sole as “unregistered” design IP

Like many companies in the fashion industry, Christian Louboutin did not seek design patent protection for its shoe designs in Brazil. The red sole...

Trademark case: The Prudential Insurance Co. of America v. PRU.COM, USA

The Chinese company acted with the requisite bad faith under the ACPA when it bought and re-registered the domain name, which was identical to...

Trademark News: What you might have missed in March 2023

Read up on the latest news reported by the Kluwer IP Reporter here. Albanian IP Office implements CP9 The General Directorate of Industrial Property (GDIP) of...

General Court: PMB wins the final round in the battle over the “rooftop” cigarette packaging

As expected, in its decision of 21 December 2022 (T-44/22), the General Court (GC) upheld the refusal of the packaging design shown above on...

Sport is no fun! General Court maintains: “gymnastic and sporting articles” and “games, toys” are dissimilar

At a time when New Year’s resolutions to exercise more fizzle out for lack of motivation, many people realise what the General Court (GC)...

Trademark case: Pocket Plus, LLC v. Pike Brands, LLC, USA

“To grant trade-dress protection for Pocket Plus,” the court said, “would be to hand it a monopoly over the ‘best’ portable-pouch design,” which trademark...

Trademark case: Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. v. FCA US, LLC, USA

A district court was too hasty in rejecting the safe distance rule. A federal district court in Detroit must reconsider its decision to allow the...

Mid-Career Motivation

Most often, my blogs here relate to Canadian trademark practice – always changing and often of interest to trademark owners and practionners. This time...

Checkmate: General Court rejects Louis Vuitton’s claim of acquired distinctiveness in its chequerboard pattern

19/10/2022 T-275/21, DEVICE OF A CHEQUERBOARD PATTERN (fig.), EU:T:2022:654 The French designer’s iconic fabric, one that is no stranger to catwalks and maison de couture...

Trademark case: Nichino America Inc. v. Valent U.S.A. LLC, ISA

The district court erred in considering the failure to produce evidence of actual confusion at this preliminary stage, but the error did not affect...

General Court allows Danish fashion brand to register their crown logo despite objections from Rolex

In a recent decision (T-726/21), the General Court (“GC”) confirmed that Rolex SA (“Rolex”) could not prevent the Danish fashion brand “Junk de Luxe”...

Prohibition measures and compensation granted to the Rubik’s Cube on the basis of parasitism

There has been a new positive development for the world-famous Rubik’s Cube in proceedings in France against a former distributor. In a decision of 19...

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