Joined Cases C-449/18 P and C-474/18 P: EUIPO v Messi Cuccittini and P J.M.-E.V. e hijos v Messi Cuccittini (2020).
The Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) dismissed appeals against the General Court (“GC”)’s decision and confirmed that there was no likelihood of confusion between the marks MESSI and MASSI given the well-known reputation of the Argentine football player Lionel Messi.More
By Joseph A.R. Gerber
The China National Intellectual Property Administration (“CNIPA”) dealt two heavy blows to Facebook in February and March of this year. Not only did the CNIPA deny Facebook’s request to invalidate a prior registration for FACEBOOK by Dr. Su Kaiming,More
Banmédica S.A. v. Arbitrator, Corte de Apelaciones de Santiago, Chile. Case number C-14654-2019 (decision dated July 1, 2020).
On July 1, 2020, the Chilean Court of Appeal overturned an arbitrator’s decision granting the domain name “multimed.cl” due to Banamerica S.A.More
Miller Thomson LLP v. Hilton Worldwide Holding LLP, 2020 FCA 134
Background
The first WALDORF-ASTORIA hotel opened in New York City in the 1930s, and it was acquired by Hilton Hotels Corporation in 1949,More
One of several important changes resulting from Brazil’s accession to the Madrid Protocol is the availability of co-ownership of trademarks under a new regime that came into force on September 15, 2020, under Resolution 245/2019 (the “Resolution”) passed by the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (“BPTO”). More
By Julia Belagorudsky
Iantosca v. Elie Tahari (No. 19-cv-04527 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 18, 2020)
With facts that were largely uncontested, the decision in Iantosca v. Elie Tahari) concisely addressed (and rejected) Tahari’s affirmative defenses that its reposting of a professional photographer’s photograph of a digital-content creator in head-to-toe Elie Tahari garb was not copyright infringement because (1) its use was fair use,More
Our December 19, 2019, newsletter reported Myanmar’s “soft launch” of new trademark applications, which at the time was expected to commence on December 20, 2019. The new confirmed start date is now October 1, 2020. As noted in our earlier article,More
By Julia Belagorudsky
Shannon DeVivo v. Celeste Ortiz, ___ U.S.P.Q. 2d. ____(T.T.A.B., March 11, 2020)
The title of a single book cannot be registered as a trademark in the United States, but a March 11, 2020, precedential decision of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board holds that other uses of the title,More
A modern trademark regime has come into force in Trinidad and Tobago with the implementation of The Trademarks Act of 2015. The new Act repeals the prior Trademark Act, which had been in effect for over six decades since 1955.More
By Sahil Yadav
Romania substantially amended its trademark legislation via Law 112/2020 which entered into force on July 13, 2020. Amendments to the Implementing Regulations are expected in September 2020. The new law was enacted to implement the EU trademarks Directive 2015/2436 and make it a part of Romanian law by amending and supplementing the older Law 84/1998.More