More Merchandise Score Decisions Reported

Issue ten (October 2003) of the subscription-based European Trade Mark Reports has straightaway been published. Among the cases made available inwards English linguistic communication translation are

• System 3R International five Erowa, where the Stockholm District Court ruled that a company’s job of another’s merchandise order for allegedly “descriptive” purposes was non honest commercial job where the “description” was every bit role of its ain merchandise mark;

• The Polish Administrative Court’s “Bottle” case, where it held that the invalidation of a pattern registration had no behave on on the validity of the registration of that pattern every bit a merchandise mark;

Other cases reported inwards this effect include the English linguistic communication Court of Appeal conclusion inwards Arsenal five Reed , the ECJ’s ruling inwards Van Doren on the burden of proof when exhaustion is pleaded too the same court’s ruling inwards Linde as to whether three-dimensional products tin dismiss live on merchandise marks for themselves.

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