The owners of Blank Coffee, a London-based artisanal vegan café established in 2018, have opposed the trade mark application for BLANK STREET filed by a US coffee company. While the opponents have a UK trade mark registration for BLANK COFFEE covering coffee and restaurant services,...
What has changed? On 25 January 2023, the UK IPO changed its practice in relation to serving documents in trade mark contested proceedings and registered design invalidation proceedings in the UK, where the applicant or registered right holder does not hold a UK address for service...
The rules on representation of UK trade marks and designs changed on 1 January 2021, following the UK’s exit from the EU. Accordingly, foreign owners of UK trade mark and design applications as well as other new proceedings before the UK IPO (Intellectual Property Office) must...
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...
The UKIPO has declared that its “interrupted days” period will end on 29 July 2020....
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK IPO has declared 24 March 2020 and all subsequent days as “interrupted days” until further notice. During these interrupted days, the IPO will not carry out its normal course of business....
While the disruption caused by Covid-19 continues, the EUIPO has extended the automatic period of extension and announced on 29 April 2020 that all time limits in proceedings before the Office that fall due between 1 May 2020 and 17 May 2020 (inclusive) will be...
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the disruption to communications between parties worldwide and the Office, the EUIPO announced that all time limits in proceedings before the Office that expire between 9 March 2020 and 30 April 2020 (inclusive) will automatically extended until 1 May...