Intellectual Property News

In 2014 the CAFFÈ NERO Group Ltd filed two EU trade mark applications for the word mark CAFFÈ NERO and a figurative mark for the words CAFFÈ NERO on a blue background.  The applica...

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has held that the shape of the multi coloured three - dimensional Rubik's Cube cannot be protected by trademark, but could be protected by paten...

The Ultimate Fighting Championship ('UFC'), a violent mixed martial arts competition, is growing in popularity and no-one is more famous within the UFC than Conor McGregor. Mr McGr...

The EU General Court has upheld a decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal against the registration of a figurative trade mark constituting an image representing a 'bodybuilder' in a ...

Background In a recent decision the General Court of the European Union has upheld two decisions made by the Board of Appeal in relation to an opposition made to a figurative tra...

The current United States presidential election has created an ongoing deluge of controversial moments from both running candidates. However, it seems that even once the election h...

Lucasfilm and its new owner, the Walt Disney Company, own the intellectual property relating to all of the Star Wars films.  Walt Disney Company in particular is famously protectiv...

A trade mark co-existence agreement enables two different businesses use a similar or identical trade mark to market products or services without necessarily interfering with the b...

The two founders of popular Scottish brewery BrewDog have taken the unusual step of changing their Christian names to 'Elvis' in response to a threat of legal action from the estat...

Globo Comunicação e Participações (GCP), a leading media group in Brazil, has been refused registration of an EU sound mark. The application, which was filed in April 2014, was r...

Rangers Football Club have been engaged in a dispute with a rugby fan, Mr Russell Campbell, over the football club's application to register a trade mark for "RFC" and "R.F.C" in a...

In the recent case of Internet Consulting GmbH v European Union Intellectual Property Office (Case T-11/15), the General Court (GC) has discussed the possibilities of having trade ...