The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) recently ruled on the invalidity of a design pre-disclosed on social media. The episode under exam dates back to 2019, when a Dutch company addressed the EUIPO to ask for the nullity of the “creepy” shoe model, registered by the well-known clothing company “PUMA”, as a model disclosed […]
The law presented by art. 4 of EU Regulation 2017/1001 provides many types of trademarks, among which the shape (or three-dimensional) trademark. It is commonly recognized, and even the Court of the European Union confirms it, that the assessment of the distinctive capacity of a shape trademark can be more difficult, given that such trademarks […]
Judgement no. 302 of the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation delivered on August 1, 2022 upholds what it has been already stated in previous rulings (Cass. civ., sez. I, n. 23292 of 2015 and Cass. civ., sez. I, n. 7477 of 2017) regarding the copyright protection of a product intended for mass production. If an […]
With judgment of July 13th 2022, given in the case T-758/20, the General Court of the European Union ruled again on the effective and genuine use of an European trademark. The issue involves, in particular, the application for revocation presented against a trademark registered at EUIPO, then integrally granted by the Invalidity Division and confirmed […]
April 26th is World Intellectual Property Day, promoted by WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization. The theme...
