2023 GC practice in retrospect (Part 2)
15 January, 2024
by Verena von Bomhard – Published on 30 December 2023 at Kluwer Trademark Blog Part 1 of this year’s retrospective provided a general overview over the GC case law from 2023 with numbers and a special focus on genuine use cases. Part 2 now focuses on...
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...