As the UK has now formally left the EU, the UKIPO (on behalf of the government) has opened a public consultation to galvanise opinion on the most suitable exhaustion regime to adopt for the UK going forward and also seeks views on how the regime...
SNCF succeeds in its opposition against the Besos Family Foundation’s EUTM application as the General Court holds the marks VROOM and POP & VROOM to be confusingly similar. The Besos Family Foundation, an American non-profit organisation for children’s learning and development set-up by the parents of...
Rothy's Inc. v. Giesswein Walkwaren [2020] - IPEC decision This case has the distinct privilege of being the last to be held at the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court - IPEC (sitting as a Community Design Court) before the end of the Brexit Transition Period, which ended at...
Brand owners of EUTM applications that were refused by the EUIPO but were appealed before 1 January 2021 should note that these applications will still be classed as “pending” for the purposes of filing a UK comparable application within the 9 months from this date...
Following its consultation, the UKIPO announced on 23 November 2020 that from the end of the Brexit Transition Period, brand owners wishing to file a trade mark, design or patent application or any new contentious proceedings at the UKIPO will no longer be able to...
From 1 January 2021, if you are UK registrant of an .eu top-level domain name, your domain may be revoked if you no longer satisfy the eligibility criteria due to the UK leaving the EU. Article 4(2)(b) of Regulation (EC) No. 733/2002 (as amended by Regulation...
UKIPO's recently published monthly statistics for trade mark and design applications and registrations show a record number of trade mark filings in June 2020 (click here). While this could be put down to brand owners simultaneously filing applications in the EU and UK to avoid any...
Fashion giant H&M will close 170 stores across Europe due to pandemic...
As anticipated, the UK Government opted not to request an extension to the Transition Period. before the deadline of 30 June 2020. ...
The UKIPO has declared that its “interrupted days” period will end on 29 July 2020....