On 21.05.2013 the British Court recognized the reasons of Interflora against Marks & Spencer in the court action relative to the use of the trademark as a keyword in Google’s AdWords service. The European Court of Justice had already expressed itself in 2011 in the present case, establishing that the use of a trademark as […]
Category Archives: Trademarks & Design
Typosquatting: compensation to Facebook
2012 was a record year for cybersquatting. According to estimates by WIPO, over 2800 complaints have been filed in order to recover 5000 domain names that had been illegitimately registered by third parties. The custom of grabbing domain names with trademarks that belong to others is all but abandoned and the owners of famous trademarks […]
The “Meditation” is not a trademark
Article 7 (1) letter. c) of the Community Trademark Regulation, like Article 13 of the Italian Industrial Property Code, states that are not to be registered: «trade marks which consist exclusively of signs or indications which may serve, in trade, to designate the kind, quality, quantity, intended purpose, value, geographical origin or the time of […]
iPhone, war of trademarks
Defending a trademark and obtaining its world-wide exclusive rights is not easy for anyone, not even for Apple. A dispute occurred in China between Cupertino’s company and Proview from Shenzhen that registered the iPad trademark before Apple. After years fighting in court, everything came to an agreement in July 2012 when Apple bought the Chinese […]