tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post8768079803164360953..comments2024-03-28T16:45:51.051+00:00Comments on The IPKat: The bad-faith bandit from Banja LukaVerónica RodrÃguez Arguijohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763207846940036921noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-10315807775167319812011-02-02T08:58:55.163+00:002011-02-02T08:58:55.163+00:00This used to be a practice in Oz in the good old d...This used to be a practice in Oz in the good old days before the Internet and more rapid communications, when Australia was relative backwoods. Sharp operators would scan overseas magazines, try to guess whether those brands would come to Oz and register them. The Oz courts would bend over backwards to fight it, even being prepared to consider advertising in magazines imported into Australia as "use", to give the proprietors prior common law rights. In one celebrated case, the owners of the US drink Seven Up tried and failed to obtain rectification of the Register in respect of "8 Up", registered by an Oz pirate.Tony McSteanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-23000951466308006512011-02-01T08:41:25.705+00:002011-02-01T08:41:25.705+00:00Croatia and Montenegro are EU candidate countries ...Croatia and Montenegro are EU candidate countries - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11283616 - and Serbia also wants to join. A little bit of pressure from the EU on those three, and checks carried out at EU borders, could interfere effectively with export to the EU of goods bearing those false trade marks.<br /><br />And if the legitimate owners were to ask for customs monitoring in any other known destination countries, would not the value of the marks to their Bosnian owners rapidly approach zero?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-53186121210397111572011-02-01T08:26:42.455+00:002011-02-01T08:26:42.455+00:00Bad! Did Bosnia not want to join the EU ...
Wors...Bad! Did Bosnia not want to join the EU ... <br /><br />Worse! Is there a grandfather clause somewhere which would give Bosnian registered marks some protection against revocation once Bosnia joined the EU?<br /><br />Worst! Could Bosnian registered marks be having a kind of penumbra effect in the rest of the EU??<br /><br />(P.S.: It's been a long time since I last had to consider anything to do with trademarks)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com