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When a brand owner seeking a CTM argues that a prima facie descriptive mark has become distinctive by prior use, will use across a few EU states be enough? Hamish…

Electronics giant TDK had not registered its brand for clothing, so could it stop ‘af 21 November 2001′ from registering TDK as a CTM for clothing? And why was sponsorship…

Roman Abramovich was not impressed with an attempt by upstart ‘Chelski Ltd’ to register ‘Chelski’ as a trade mark. Out came the top legal signings in a court challenge, but…

At the request of Direct Line, the Trade Mark Registry has blocked a bid by rival eSure for a mouse on wheels trade mark. DL said this was confusingly similar…

The forgettably named ‘Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market’ registers Community Trade Marks. So how has it managed to amass a cash surplus estimated to reach €375 million by…

Brand owners just won’t lie down in the face of continuing sales of their registered trade marks for search engine marketing purposes.   Topic: Search Engine marketing – Latest US keyword…

When Matalan launched a range of hoodies branded ‘Rebel attitude,’ competitor Primark was on its back claiming a monopoly right in kids’ clothing using the word ‘Rebel.’ Can it claim…

A recent High Court tussle pitted London music remixer Richard Dearlove against rap megastar Sean Combs from the US. What could they possibly be fighting about and was the might…

In the footsteps of Sir Stelios’s efforts to put brand use of ‘Easy’ off limits for all other businesses, Apple Computer is lashing out from its Cupertino California HQ at…

As Big Brother fever once again sweeps the nation, Nestlé transformed itself into Willy Wonka in order to secure its slice of the marketing pie. With 5 complaints received by…

As Anheuser-Busch makes an application to register the word ‘Bud’ as a community trade mark, once again, the two breweries go head to head in a battle to protect their…