COMING UP ON 1 MAY 2025: AMENDMENTS TO EU DESIGN LAWWe recently held a webinar on the upcoming amendments to EU design law. To learn more about the new amendments, listen to our webinar recording which will be…

Has the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) rejected your trademark application but the decision is not yet final? Consider withdrawing the application to keep the option alive to convert your…

What a ride and wake-up call for McDonald’s. [[{"type":"media","fid":"5450","view_mode":"default","instance_fields":"override","attributes":{"style":"width: 300px; height:…

Just recently, in December 2021, the EU Directorate-General for Interal Policies published an extensive Study on "Cross Border Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights". This excellent and over 100 page study…

On New Types of Trademarks  --  EU Common Practice CP11 recently publishedRecently, in April 2021, the Intellectual Property Offices of the EU Intellectual Property Network (EUIPN) published a new Common Practice…

If you have ever had to take your case from the EUIPO to the General Court or even to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), it might have taken you a while to get a decision. Thus, among other…

On 14 February 2019, the Higher Regional Court Frankfurt a.M. ruled that German courts have an international competence for adverts on the Internet in particular, if those adverts are provided on a…

On the 12 December 2018 our law firm LexDellmeier is organizing an online webinar with the topic “Changes in German Trademark Law” which are going to come into effect on the 14 January 2019.Date:             …

On 15 August 2018, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) published its Information Notice No. 12/2018. In this Notice, WIPO released a new version of the 11th edition of the International…

On 4 May 2018, the General Court (GC) dismissed the action filed by the trademark applicant Skyleader. The GC stated that in revocation proceedings, the EUIPO cannot accept evidence of proof of use which is…

On 28 March 2018, the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology for the European Commission (DG CONNECT) published a Notice to Stakeholders stating that after the UK leaves the…

On 20 December 2017, the Court of Appeal in Sweden sentenced some of the scammers from the Uppsala trademark scam case to serve a prison sentence. They were found guilty of fraud for sending misleading invoices to…

The new year brought some changes at WIPO and the EUIPO which are taking effect on 1 January 2018. Here is a brief summary of the most important ones for all trademark practitioners.Source: Pixabay Madrid…

From 31 October 2015 the Madrid System operates as a single treaty system and the Protocol governs all the designations in the International Register.  All new international applications shall be filed using the…