tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post4017775173016465687..comments2024-03-29T13:59:42.629+00:00Comments on The IPKat: Night Watch, Why Not? The art of trade mark applicationVerónica RodrÃguez Arguijohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763207846940036921noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-85236944861275787612015-11-17T08:47:03.345+00:002015-11-17T08:47:03.345+00:00The objection is clear. It is not a trade mark a...The objection is clear. It is not a trade mark at all. The applicants do not deal in strontium, never will and have no intention of using the mark in trade for anything.<br /> <br />The fact that EU TM law as currently operated may allow this sort of thing brings it into disrepute. If only a case as clear as this could get to the CJEU it might see some sense.Professor Sir Robin Jacobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-42791041998124972402015-11-16T13:29:06.483+00:002015-11-16T13:29:06.483+00:00I have to wonder if the Benelux Office for IP will...I have to wonder if the Benelux Office for IP will be making use of the services of one of the industrial painting reproduction outfits such as 'Painting Star' in China when providing the painting of the trade mark? <br /><br />Painting Star is an example of a company which has recently caused some consternation amongst the UK museum/gallery community by selling copies of notable works of art, thereby infringing the original artistic copyright in some more recent works, and/or photographic copyright (e.g. the copyright in the digital 'surrogates', in particular of older works for which the artistic copyright has expired, but where a digitisation program has resulted in a new work).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com