The Italian Regulatory Authority for Communications (AGCOM) has recently published the “The Regulation for The Intermediation of Copyright and Related Rights” in compliance with the EU directive of April 17th 2019, better known as Copyright Directive (EU Directive 2019/790). The Directive has been adopted with the purpose of modernizing and harmonizing the European normative framework […]
Societè du Tour de France vs Tour de X and risk of confusion
The recent case involving Société du Tour de France against the German fitness studios chain FitX has reignited the debate on the risk of confusion between similar trademarks in the context of EU law. The issue concerned the registration of the figurative trademark “TOUR DE X”, requested by FitX Beteiligungs GmbH on May 2017 for […]
Fair use and meme: the decision of the USA Court of Appeal
On July 7th 2024, the Court of Appeal of the United States issued an important judgment on the protection of a meme, generally known as an image or video that, combined in some cases with a caption, is usually aimed at entertaining and made to be widely shared on the internet, mainly through social media. […]
Orange on trial. When a color becomes a trademark
LVMH’s champagne orange faces a setback The well-known “Veuve Clicquot” wine trademark, owned by the notorious champagne house LVMH group, was at the center of a complex legal battle in defense of a distinctive characteristic of its products: the orange shade of its bottles label. This case shed light on the strict probatory standards requested […]