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The "Showgirl" Showdown: What The Taylor Swift Lawsuit Reveals About Creative Expression, Trademarks, And Commercial Identity
KG K&L Gates LLP More At K&L Gates, we foster an inclusive and collaborative environment across our fully integrated global platform that enables us to diligently combine the knowledge and expertise of our lawyers and policy professionals to create teams that provide exceptional client solutions. With offices worldwide, we represent leading global corporations in every major industry, capital markets participants, and ambitious middle-market and emerging growth companies.
Life After Skykick: UKIPO Issued New Guidelines
KG K&L Gates LLP More At K&L Gates, we foster an inclusive and collaborative environment across our fully integrated global platform that enables us to diligently combine the knowledge and expertise of our lawyers and policy professionals to create teams that provide exceptional client solutions. With offices spanning across five continents, we represent leading global corporations in every major industry, capital markets participants, and ambitious middle-market and emerging growth companies.
Life After Skykick: UKIPO Issued New Guidelines
Following the judgement, issued in December 2024, the UKIPO has now issued a practice note providing applicants with guidance on drafting and filing trade mark applications in the UK. highlighted that filing an application for unduly broad specifications of goods and services with no genuine intention to use the mark can constitute bad faith and applicants are now provided with the tools to avoid the most common pitfalls.
The Cloudy World Of Look-A-Like Products – Aldi Successfully Defends Allegations Of Trade Mark Infringement - Trademark - United States
Recently the High Court of Justice of England and Wales handed down its judgment in a trade mark infringement proceeding between Aldi v Thatcher's that had been being watched by many. Thatchers had sued Aldi for trade mark infringement and passing off over claims that the supermarket's Taurus lemonade brand was a copycat of its Cloudy Lemon Cider in both taste and appearance (see below).
Upcoming UKIPO Representation Changes – The Effects Of Brexit Continue - Trademark - UK
One of the effects of Brexit was that the UK introduced a requirement for a UK based representative for all UK national trade marks, patents and designs and international registrations designating the UK in January 2021. However, there was a grace period for comparable trade marks or re-registered designs deriving from an EU national trade mark or international registration designating the EU.
Batman Won Another (Trade Mark) Battle
Batman may be a superhero but it is the General Court who has come to the rescue following an invalidation action bought against DC Comics, a Warner Bros subsidiary, by Commerciale Italiana Srl, a wholesale retailer of costumes. In 2019, the Italian company applied for the invalidation of the well-known Batman logo (EUTM 000038158) for some of the goods in classes 25 and 28 (including clothing, footwear, and costumes), based on lack of distinctive character.
Batman Won Another (Trade Mark) Battle
Batman may be a superhero but it is the General Court who has come to the rescue following an invalidation action bought against DC Comics, a Warner Bros subsidiary, by Commerciale Italiana Srl, a wholesale retailer of costumes. In 2019, the Italian company applied for the invalidation of the well-known Batman logo (EUTM 000038158) for some of the goods in classes 25 and 28 (including clothing, footwear, and costumes), based on lack of distinctive character.
Registering NFTs And Virtual Goods In The UK
As we learned to appreciate over the past year or so, virtual goods are intangible assets that can be traded within a virtual economy, worth whatever participants in the virtual market are willing to pay for them. Though a type of virtual good, NFTs have their own unique definition, which can now be found in the Cambridge Dictionary: An NFT is a unique unit of data (the only one existing of its type) that links to a particular piece of digital art, music, video etc.
Registering NFTs and Virtual Goods in the UK
As we learned to appreciate over the past year or so, virtual goods are intangible assets that can be traded within a virtual economy, worth whatever participants in the virtual market are willing to pay for them. Though a type of virtual good, NFTs have their own unique definition, which can now be found in the Cambridge Dictionary: An NFT is a unique unit of data (the only one existing of its type) that links to a particular piece of digital art, music, video etc.
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