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The Regional Court Berlin decided that companies cannot choose the language of their General Terms and Conditions (GTCs) by themselves (Judgment dated 9 May 2014; Case No.: 15 O 44/13)
Background of the Case and…
The world’s leading independent brand valuation and strategy consultancy Brand Finance just published the Global Brand 500 report. Brand Finance puts thousands of the world’s biggest brands to the Global Brand…
The International Trademark Association (INTA), headquartered in New York City, is a global association of trademark owners and professionals dedicated to supporting trademarks and related intellectual property in…
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The German Federal Court of Justice decided that the holder of an older trademark is allowed to demand for the cancellation of a registered trademark which is just a parody of their established trademark (Judgment…
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Every April 26 - the day on which the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) Convention came into force in 1970 - the WIPO celebrates the World Intellectual Property Day to promote discussions about the…
We invite all our readers come to our seminar “IP Company and Value” on 15 June 2015 in Munich, Germany.
Since the foundation of our law firm in 2009, we focus on our client’s intellectual property needs - from…
The European General Court (EGC) decided that the Community Trademark (CTM) VOODOO is not descriptive because the word “VOODOO” will just be seen as a fantasy term with a vague reference to some occult practices…
The General Court of the European Union (EGC) decided that the invisible character of a product - in this case a cookie - does not relate to the appearance and therefore cannot taken into account in the…
The General Court of the European Union (EGC) decided that that a likelihood of confusion between the word/device mark “Master” of Modern Industrial & Trading Investment Co. Ltd and the earlier trademark “Coca…
The Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM), the responsible office in the EU for registering Community Trademarks and Community Designs having the "automatic" effect throughtout 28 national EU…
The EGC (European General Court) decided that in the context of a computerized booking system, the final price to be paid must be indicated whenever the prices of air services are shown (Judgment dated 15 January…
The world is filled with milion of brands but, behind most of them are only a few big cooperations. These companies control the gobal consumers markets for food, beverages, cleaning preperations, personal care…
The „TM5“ just published a Statistics about the development of Community Trademarks in 2014.
Below you can see that 117.451 Community Trademark (CTM) Applications were received by OHIM in 2014. As you can see,…
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SyncForce, founded in 1999, is a leading provider of business software that supports branded goods manufacturers. SyncForce also powers “Ranking the Brands”, which just published the Top 500 Franchise Ranking.
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