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Trademark: Terms of Renewal

By horak LawyersPosted on 18. July 2022Posted in absolute grounds for refusal, certification mark, danger of deceiving the public, DPMA, General, German Patent Application, lack of distinctiveness, Patent law, Patent license law, Patents, trade mark application, trademark, trademark category, trademark law, tribunal decisionTagged brand, EUIPO judgement, German law, intellectual property, IP-law, trademark, trademark application, trademark law, trademark protection, tribunal decisionNo Comments

Trademark´s Renewal Terms of protection: 3 Things To Know 1. After the Trademark Law Reform In the case of a trademark registered as of 01/14/2019, the term of protection begins on the day following the filing of the application and ends at the end of the day corresponding to the day of filing […]

Registering the name of an independent state: Andorra’s case

By horak LawyersPosted on 31. March 2022Posted in certification mark, danger of deceiving the public, descriptive term, DPMA, General, German Patent Application, lack of distinctiveness, trade mark application, trademark, trademark category, trademark law, tribunal decisionTagged Andorra, cases, decision, dismissal, ecj, Europe, European law, French, independent state, legal application, new, new case, news, refusal, registration, Spain, trademark, trademark applicationNo Comments

Andorra – the independent state : Bureaucracy problems The Principality of Andorra is not allowed to register its own name as a Union trademark. The government of the small principality is not allowed to protect the name “ANDORRA” as a Union trademark. The figurative sign should be used for marketing various goods and services. But that was recently […]

Trademark law absolute grounds for refusal

By horak LawyersPosted on 10. March 2022Posted in absolute grounds for refusal, danger of deceiving the public, descriptive term, lack of distinctiveness, trade mark application, trademark, trademark lawTagged absolute grounds for refusal, danger of deceiving the public, descriptive term, lack of distinctiveness, trademark, trademark applicationNo Comments

The DPMA examines the trade mark application for absolute grounds for refusal. Absolute grounds for refusal are for example: lack of distinctiveness descriptive terms that must be kept freely available for general use danger of deceiving the public an emblem of state included in the trade mark offence against public policy or accepted principles of […]

What are trademarks?

By horak LawyersPosted on 10. March 2022Posted in reputation, trade mark application, trademark, trademark category, trademark lawTagged German trademark, trademark, trademark application, trademark lawNo Comments

As a rule, a trade mark is used to identify the goods and/or services of an enterprise. Signs suitable for distinguishing goods and/or services of an enterprise from those of another enterprise can be protected as trade marks. These can be, for example, words, letters, numbers, images, but also colours, holograms, multimedia signs and sounds. […]