On October 15, 2024, the Grand Board of Appeal published its reasoned opinion on the questions referred by the Executive Director of EUIPO (Referral of ...
The judgment of the General Court (GC) concerns a textbook case and addresses the typical arguments in trademark conflicts in the cosmetics sector. Facts ...
A few days ago, we reported that the Executive Director (ED) of the EUIPO had referred questions to the Grand Board of Appeal (see here) . The full ...
On April 2nd, the EUIPO has publicly announced the first referral by the Executive Director to the Grand Board of Appeal pursuant to Article 159(4)(l) of ...
On 25 January 2024 the CJEU issued the long-awaited judgement in the already famous AUDI case (C-334/22). This judgment confirms the possibility of Audi ...
We UK lawyers view with interest the developments in the “Brexit cases”, resulting in appeals to the CJEU in 3 cases, as discussed in various previous posts ...
On 18 January 2024, in case C-367/21 (still no English version) the CJEU ruled again on the exhaustion of EU trade mark rights (following its five rulings ...