Two appeals relating to opposition division decisions allow to illustrate the comparison of goods as it is studied by the OHIM.
Group M., nurserygardener breeder is the owner of a new plant variety certificate for a variety of strawberry-plant named "Mara des Bois".
One of the means proposed by the French Law against the infringement of a design or a trademark is that the customs administration may suspend:
The Boards of Appeal of OHIM seem to search whether the trademark constitutes the normal way to designate a product
The Court of Justice of the European Community delivered a judgment C-2/00 relative the use of a trade mark with descriptive purposes in the course of trade.
How is a game protected ? Is it possible to sell a game which is "similar" to an existing game ?
The Common Regulations under the Madrid Agreement and Protocol has been amended.
The Council Regulation No 6/2002 of December 12, 2001 on Community designs has been published in the Official Journal of January 5, 2002, therefore it will get in force on March 6, 2002.
By two decisions of the Administrative Council of 18 October 2001 and 13 December 2001, the European Patent Office (EPO) has modified the rules relating to fees.
12 countries are negociating for entering in the today's 15 Member State European Union.
