Background The applicant, US company VersionTech Inc, was the registered owner of the EU word mark VERSIONTECH, for goods in Classes 9 and 11, particularly relating to communication devices, such as smartphones, and other technical measuring instruments. On 10 September 2021 US company Verizon Trademark Services LLC filed an application under Articles […]
This article was first published in WTR Daily, part of World Trademark Review, in the October 2024 issue. For further information, please visit www.worldtrademarkreview.com. In its decision in Case T-1072/23 dated 23 October 2024, the Court of the European Union rejected Nike Innovate CV’s request for annulment of the decision of the EUIPO’s Fourth Board
This article first appeared in WTR Daily, part of World Trademark Review, in September 2024. For further information, please go to www.worldtrademarkreview.com. With its decision in Case T‑73/23, dated 4 September 2024, the General Court has dismissed a request for annulment by the applicant, Swiss company Tertianum AG, of the decision of the Board of
An opposition was filed against German trademark no. 30 2018 000 097 (word mark) “KOSAPRO,” registered on February 26, 2018, claiming, inter alia, signal devices and equipment as well as lighting for vehicles. The opposition was based on the claim that the mark “KOSAPRO” had allegedly been used since 2011 for similar goods, invoking Sections
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