Luxury and Glamour win: KENZO ESTATE for wines and other goods misappropriates reputation of KENZO
6 junio, 2018
CJEU, 30 May 2018, C-85/16 P, C-86/16 P – Kenzo Tsujimoto v. EUIPO / Kenzo [KENZO ESTATE] The fame of the fashion brand KENZO is such that it can be held against the registration of KENZO ESTATE as an EUTM for wines and “western liquors” and...
DAYADAY – General Court once again obliges the EUIPO to assess the precise level of a claimed reputation
6 junio, 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–...