Yahoo! News reports that Pilot Pen Company has won a French trade mark infringement case against Mattel. Pilot makes the Magna Doodle sketching toy, and holds French and Community trade marks for MAGNA DOODLE. Mattel produced a sketching toy under the DOODLE-PRO trade mark, which was found by the Tribunal de Grande Instance of Paris to be confusingly similar to the MAGNA DOODLE mark. Mattel has said that it will appeal.
* Listed as a "Top Legal Blog" in The Times Online, March 2011
* One of only two non-US weblogs listed in the 2010 ABA Journal Blawg 100
* Court Reporter Top Copyright Blog award winner, November 2010
* Number 1 in the 2010 Top Copyright Blog list compiled by the Copyright Litigation Blog, July 2010
* Selected by United States Library of Congress for inclusion in its historic collections of Internet materials related to Legal Blawgs 2010
* Top Patent Blog poll 2009: 3rd out of 50 in the "Favourite Patent Blog" poll and 2nd out of 50 in the "Most-read" poll
* ComputerWeekly IT Law and Governance Blog of the Year 20 August 2008
* Best of the Blogs, Times Online, 21 August 2008
* Listed as one of Managing Intellectual Property magazine's Fifty Most Influential People of 2005 and again in 2011
6 comments:
Yes exactly, but is 'Doodle' descriptive/suggestive in French ?
TM consisting in English words are deemed distinctive if a French consummer with average notions of English (i.e. basic vocabulary) doesn't understand them.
Would you consider that "griffoner" is a distinctive TM in the UK for cl 28 products ?
Frederic (my apologies I can't do accents), I've little doubt that "griffoner" would get onto our register in class 28. Not a guarantee, an opinion.
Ooops, I meant "griffonner".
Not a problem. One 'n' or two 'n's. Looks like a perfectly good TM (to the average anglophone consumer).
I got a copy of the judgment. See my note (in French) here.
Post a Comment