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Fashion and luxury brands’ intellectual property protection for SS21: it’s by design
Posted: 13/10/2020
As the late Karl Lagerfeld once said, “Fashion is what people wear, not only what you see on the runway” - a concept which certainly seems to have inspired the catwalk at this year’s London Fashion Week and Milan Fashion Week for the Spring/Summer 2021 collections. With a noticeable focus on elasticated waistbands and comfortable trousers...…>>
Back of the net: Messi scores definitive victory in a nine-year legal dispute over his trade mark
Posted: 28/09/2020
We wrote previously about Lionel Messi's success against Massi, the famous Spanish cycling brand, back in 2018, when the General Court of the European Union ruled that the world-famous footballer could finally register his name as a trade mark. The decision came after a lengthy dispute in which Massi opposed the trade mark application...…>>
Banksy's trade marks at risk as artist loses legal battle over registration of Flower Thrower mural
Posted: 22/09/2020
Banksy's trade mark portfolio could potentially be at risk as the Cancellation Division of the EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) holds that Banksy's trade mark for ‘Flower Thrower’ was filed in bad faith and is therefore invalid. In 2014, Banksy (via an entity called Pest Control Office Limited)……>>
Regeneron v Kymab: UK Supreme Court rules against Regeneron in landmark patent claim sufficiency judgment
Posted: 08/09/2020
As the saying goes, ‘the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry’. And unfortunately for Regeneron, so too, it seems, have the carefully constructed patent claims that aimed to protect Regeneron’s invention in successfully producing human antibodies in transgenic mice...…>>
3D trade marks: it’s all in the gömböc
Posted: 13/08/2020
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has handed down its decision in the 'gömböc' case, clarifying two separate grounds for refusal for a trade mark application based purely on the shape of a product. The 'gömböc' is the first known homogenous object with one stable and one unstable equilibrium point....…>>

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