EUIPO Board of Appeal has accepted the proof of publication date done only before the BoA after Cancellation Division rejected the declaration of invalidity as unfounded because of undated documents.…
Design 4594802-0005 for half boots was registered in 2018 and duly renewed when an application for invalidity was filed against it.
One of the prior shoes cited by the applicant for invalidity was…
Articles L612-8 and L612-9 of the French IP Code provide that the Ministry in charge of Defense is authorized to read any patent application that is filed before the French patent office and that the…
French patent law, more specifically Article L. 613-7 of the French IP code, provides a defense in case of infringement in France based on a French patent or a French part of a European patent: the…
Opposition has been filed against EUTM application COOL GANG. Opposition division concluded to likelihood of confusion, but some goods were found not similar.
In order to invalidate a RCD for jewellery having the shape of a lilac flower, the invalidity applicant submitted undated images of similar patterns: three images of jewellery, three photographs of…
No likelihood of confusion between these two figurative trademarks.
Contrary to the EUIPO Board of Appeal and Opposition Division, the General Court concludes to the absence of likelihood of confusion, mainly because the term FLY is not distinctive for services…
In general, antibodies can be defined by (but are not limited to): (a) their own structure (amino acid sequences); (b) nucleic acid sequences encoding the antibody; (c) reference to the target…
In accordance with Article 112(1)(a) EPC, a new referral was made by Technical Board of Appeal 3.2.04 to the Enlarged Board of Appeal by interlocutory decision of 11 November 2024 in case T1286/23.
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