Suppose you want to register a trademark that identifies a source of goods/services for your business. What if the trademark describes an ingredient, quality, feature, function, characteristic, or ...

What’s wrong with “Robotoy,”? Whether a trademark can be registered depends on its position on the spectrum, from the strongest -- fanciful to arbitrary to suggestive --- to the weakest – descriptive ...

In an April 14 2016 decision a French court of first instance held that Auchan’s Community Trademarks SIMPLY and SIMPLY MARKET were descriptive terms and therefore invalid and rejected Auchan’s unfair ...

We’ve all been there. The Marketing team comes up with a shortlist of branding ideas for the latest product or service – and at the top of the list is a brand which is descriptive. As trade mark ...

In BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH v OHIM, the General Court has upheld a decision of OHIM rejecting a CTM application for ECODOOR for various household appliances, finding that the mark was ...