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Feb 24, 2023
In quite a remarkable decision of 2019, the Cancellation Division of the EUIPO had revoked one of McDonald's best-known trademarks, the BIG MAC, for reasons of non-use. The trademark BIG MAC had previously been…
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Can the provision of services under a certain trademark outside the European Union constitute genuine use of that trademark within the EU? At first glance, one might think this is an easy question to answer. Outside…
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Questions relating to the use of third parties' trade marks in the context of one's own advertising material are not as uncommon as they may seem at first glance: May I display the logo of the manufacturer of the…
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EU member states all have to amend their trade mark laws in adoption to the new EU Trade Mark Directive until beginning of 2019. Austria has now passed an amendment of its trade mark law, on the one side, to accelerate…
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