🔴 Ferrari lost a landmark legal battle regarding its trademark covering the shape of its iconic 250 GTO, the world’s most expensive car. Ares Design, an Italian bespoke car manufacturer, won the case on the grounds that Ferrari had not put its trademark to genuine use for a continuous period
Month: March 2021 (page 1 of 2)
The best startups and companies are those with catchy and memorable company names, product names, service names, trademarks, and other intellectual property. It can take years and years for gibberish-branded companies (Google, Hulu, Moodle, our countless others.) to earn name recognition among a mass
As many physical storefronts struggle to keep their doors open and COVID-19 continues to spread, many of the challenges businesses have been facing are magnified. Without intellectual property protection, researchers and businesses would not get proper compensation for their creations. This could
In an interesting decision from October 2020, the EU General Court considered that there was no likelihood of confusion between the signs ‘Athlon Custom Sportswear’ and ‘DECATHLON’ pursuant to Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation 2017/1001 (the EU Trade Mark Regulation (EUTMR)). In particular, it
The facts of Case I ZR 120/19 concern an online TV guide, which used images of four popular television presenters, including Günther Jauch, in a Facebook post on 18 August 2015. The page administrator wrote that one of the presenters was to retire because of cancer, with a link to an article which