All these small Gimmicks – Trademark Infringement?Vacation time. Travelling time. Hamburg. Miniatur Wunderland - the world´s largest model railway. An amazing place to spend a whole day, discovering all the small…
Decisions
Design Law
ECJ - European Court of Justice
German Federal Court
Intellectual Property
Unfair Competition Law
Following a request for a preliminary ruling by the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) on January 30, 2020 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled on when unregistered designs of individual parts enter into…
When was the last time that you bought something not just off the shelf, but with giving it a little more thought before buying? Did you look for test results for the product category that you were interested in…
The German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) recently rendered a decision on trademark use in the field of textiles that is worth reading. In general, use as a trademark requires that a significant part of the…
Decisions
German Federal Court
German Trademarks
Intellectual Property Law
Three-dimensional trademarks
Trademarks
In its recent decision of 18 October 2017, the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) held square-shaped chocolate packaging eligible for protection as three-dimensional trademarks and annulled two…
On 21 October 2015, the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) ruled that the registered 3D trademark of Mars‘ „Bounty“ chocolate bar is protected against trademark use by competitors. The Court held that if the…