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Distinctive Signs & EU Trade Marks - A Bite-Sized Update

Level
Intermediate: Requires some prior subject knowledge
CPD
0.5 hours
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Distinctive Signs & EU Trade Marks - A Bite-Sized Update

Available to view from 7 Apr 2025

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Introduction

This short webinar will provide you with the latest update on the conditions of distinctiveness of trademarks.

Further, the webinar will explore the obligation of the EUIPO to state reasons in its decisions according to latest case law.

It will update you on the latest EU case law concerning registrability of trademarks.

The session is suitable for delegates in the EU and those in the UK with an interest in EU law.

What You Will Learn

This short webinar will cover the following:

  • Lack of distinctiveness:
    • Slogan - ‘mit Freude naschen’
    • Figurative trade mark - newly hatched chick
    • Figurative mark representing two parallel stripes on the side of a sports shoe
    • Sound mark - Porsche
    • Geographical indication - Sophienwald, Neuschwanstein
  • Obligation of the EUIPO to state reasons Art. 94 (1) EUTMR (T 568/23; T 307/23)

This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Monday 7th April 2025

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Distinctive Signs & EU Trade Marks - A Bite-Sized Update