CJEU: Puma’s feline jumps high: EUIPO must take into account earlier decisions recognizing reputation of a mark invoked in an opposition
16 July, 2018
Athanasia Giannopoulou, Verena von Bomhard (BomhardIP) By judgment of 28 June 2018 (C‑564/16 P), the CJEU rejected an appeal filed by the EUIPO. The case was, in essence, about whether and to which extent the EUIPO could or even had to take into account its own...
DAYADAY – General Court once again obliges the EUIPO to assess the precise level of a claimed reputation
6 June, 2018
The General Court annulled a decision by the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO, based on an insufficient (or, rather, inexistent) assessment of the reputation claimed by the opponent (GC, 1 June 2018, T900/16, only available in Spanish and French). The case concerned largely identical marks–...