Salesforce – not such a social enterprise?
Salesforce, the US-based the customer relations management software solutions and enterprise cloud company, has applied to register European Community trade marks for “SOCIAL ENTERPRISE”. Social...
View ArticleFarmers fishing in wrong place over descriptive trade mark words
Evegate Publishing v Newsquest Media, High Court Evegate or its predecessor had been publishing and supplying a farming magazine called South East Farmer to 15,000 people in the South East of England...
View ArticlePouring oil over troubled aqua in imperfect trade mark choice
BSH Bosch, EU General Court The OHIM Board of Appeal was wrong to decide that there was no likelihood of confusion between the AQUAPERFECT trade mark that was subject to a European Community Trade Mark...
View ArticleGENTLECARE too descriptive to be registered trade mark
Grundig Multimedia v OHIM, EU General Court The European Union’s General Court has upheld a decision by the OHIM Board of Appeal that GENTLECARE was too descriptive and not distinctive enough to be...
View ArticlePIANISSIMO lacking distinctiveness to be registered trade mark
Grundig Multimedia v OHIM, EU General Court You are not seeing double. This is another trade mark case that Grundig has lost before the European Union’s General Court. This one too – just like the...
View ArticleJudge appreciates the right blend in whisky trade mark case
Whyte and Mackay Ltd v Origin Wine UK Ltd, High Court With whisky, it’s all about getting the right blend. And so it is the case with composite trade marks. In this case, Whyte and Mackay persuaded the...
View ArticleGO WALKING and GO RUNNING trade mark applications go wrong
Go Outdoors Ltd v Skechers USA Inc II, High Court Go Outdoors had applied to register trade marks for GO WALKING and GO RUNNING. It had used the marks for many years in signage, marketing literature...
View ArticleHigh Court knocks Canary Wharf down in trade mark claim
Canary Wharf Group Plc v The Comptroller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks, High Court CWG – the owner of 14 million square feet of office and retail space in the Canary Wharf Estate – has...
View ArticleSquabbling adult education charities sent to naughty corner by judge over...
NOCN v Open College Network Credit4Learning, Intellectual Property Enterprise Court NOCN held registered trade marks for OCN and a swoosh logo. It claimed that the defendant had infringed its marks and...
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