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Challenging Nestlé’s fitness for trade mark: Can belated evidence lead to invalidation?

Brand wars: the never-ending battle against the clones

Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

EUIPO Board of Appeal holds numeric pattern insufficiently distinctive to be a trade mark

CJEU clarifies connecting factors and level of assessment for international jurisdiction of EU trade mark courts

General Court considers ‘gymnastic and sporting articles’ and ‘games and toys’ dissimilar for the purpose of likelihood of confusion assessment

Never too late: if you missed the IPKat last week!

The difficulty of protecting tactile marks

Use of a 3D mark for a potato chip in an altered form: what is needed to avoid revocation for non use?

Monday Miscellany

Is use of a sign in commerce in a different form from how it was registered genuine use of that trade mark?

Are cats and tigers alike? EU General Court considers that there is a likelihood of confusion between ‘Tigercat’ and ‘Cat’

Samsonite fails in getting 3D EU trade mark registration for tablet cases due to lack of distinctiveness

EUIPO Fifth Board of Appeal considers Absolut’s vodka bottle distinctive enough to be a trade mark

Could ‘COVIDIOT’ be a trade mark in the EU?