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Sep 24, 2020
After a bitter defeat in Lissabon against FC Bayern Munich football player Lionel Messi carried off a glorious victory inLuxembourg. It was already in 2011 that Messi wanted to expand his professional activities to…
Read more →This case is a dispute between two Turkish traders in foodstuffs in Austria. It is a case of trade mark opposition proceedings so that only the registered goods count and not the market fact that these food products are…
Read more →McDonald's opposed the trademark MCBERG for clothing et al. in class 25, for services for education, entertainment et al. and in class 41 and for providing food and drinks, provision of accommodation in class 43.…
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In a recent judgment the Austrian Supreme IP Tribunal had to decide on the likelihood of confusion between the older figurative mark "e@sybank" and the younger Austrian figurative mark "e@syCredit". Whether "e@sybank"…
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As already reported some time ago (news April 2011) RED BULL's trade mark "FLÜGERL" (meaning "small wings" in the German language) had been cancelled as the Austrian Supreme Court found the sign was only used in a…
Read more →In one of its recent judgments, the Austrian Supreme Court had to decide on the likelihood of confusion between the word mark "Sinupret" registered i.a. for pharmaceutical products and the sign "Sinuvex" used for…
Read more →Some of the more vinophile IP enthusiasts might have heard of young Austrian wine called "Junker" coming from southern Styria. Already in 1986 some wineries from Styria joined together to the sell young white wine from…
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