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Lip tapes and lawyers: UKIPO considers weak distinctiveness, bad faith and the weight of evidence
10 November 2025
Two recent UKIPO opposition decisions demonstrate the pitfalls and evidential hurdles when relying on marks with low distinctive character and…
CJEU: no room for national provisions on forfeiture of rights - EU Trademark Directive fully harmonises acquiescence
10 November 2025
In its recent Lunapark v Hardeco judgement (C-452/24), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has delivered a…
Acquiring earlier marks, fame negating confusion and (not) a family of marks argument: easyGroup v Premier Inn Hotels
10 November 2025
In August 2025, easyGroup’s trade mark infringement claim against Premier Inn’s use of signs containing “REST EASY” in relation to…
Who knew air vents could be so interesting! General Court decision expands the concept of partial use
10 November 2025
The applicant, Bouwbenodigdheden Hoogeveen BV (BHB) has a European Union trade mark (EUTM) registration for BIENENBEISSER covering metal building materials…
Bad faith: UKIPO applies SkyKick in “Grayn” case
10 November 2025
In this case, the length and breadth of the applied for specification gave rise to a successful bad faith claim…
Variant use, promotional use & partial revocation: easyGroup partially successful at the Court of Appeal
01 September 2025
Two recent Court of Appeal decisions, easyGroup Ltd v Easy Live (Services) Ltd (EasyLive) and easyGroup Ltd v Easyfundraising Ltd…
Sales of own products qualify as genuine use for retail services: Board of Appeal overturns EUIPO’s restrictive approach
01 September 2025
The Board of Appeal has confirmed that retail services limited to the trade mark proprietor’s own products may constitute genuine…
SkyKick in practice: broad specification leads to finding of bad faith
01 September 2025
The United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) has applied the Supreme Court judgment in SkyKick UK Ltd and Anor v…
Iconix v Dream Pairs: UK Supreme Court confirms relevance of post-sale confusion in infringement assessment
01 September 2025
This Supreme Court decision highlights the relevance of post-sale confusion to the assessment of similarity and confusion in UK trade…
Comparable UK trade marks and genuine use: post-Brexit update
01 September 2025
On 01 January 2021, the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) cloned existing EU trade mark registrations and protected EU…
Domain name disputes: decision considers use of a trade mark by a reseller
19 August 2025
The Czech Arbitration Court recently ruled in a Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) dispute over the domain name lostmarydirect.com.
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