Monitoring References to the Court of Justice of the European Union
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5 case reports
By judgment of 16 September 2015 (ECLI:EU:C:2015:604) the Court held that to register a shape on acquired distinctiveness the applicant must prove that the relevant public identifies origin by that mark alone — not by it in combination with other marks on…
By judgment of 10 July 2014 (ECLI:EU:C:2014:2070) the Court held that the representation of a retail store's layout, by a design alone without size indications, may be registered as a trade mark for services consisting of offerings related to the goods…
On 18 September 2014 the Court ruled (ECLI:EU:C:2014:2233) on the Tripp Trapp chair that the "nature of the goods" exclusion covers shapes with essential characteristics inherent to the generic function of the product, and the "substantial value" exclusion…
By judgment of 27 June 2013 (ECLI:EU:C:2013:435) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “1.
Can the particular shape of a chocolate stick be protected under the EU Trade Mark Directive 89/104? Facts Both the claimant and defendant companies make chocolate-sticks. In 1998 the defendant French company, Revillon, began making theirs in the form of ‘un sarment de vigne’ – a vine-shoot. The…