What is real
is not external form.”
Situations can vary. We have already expressed our opinion in other materials on how we proceed when the trademark our customer wishes to register is already in use on the market. But what happens when the customer is the one that owns the trademark that a competitor wishes to register for the marketed products?
The procedure followed is similar to the one in which the customer wishes to register an already existing mark. Specifically, our client, a well-known pharmaceutical company, uses a brand under which it sells food supplements. An application for an identical trademark has been filed by another pharma company with the purpose to bring medical products, such as cement for arthroplasty, to the market.
In order to reach consensus with the adversary, we have started negotiations aiming to conclude with a coexistence agreement. In the event that we won’t reach an agreement that suits both parties and does not damage in any way our client’s brand, then we will go to EUIPO (the European Union Intellectual Property Office), the institution that manages trademark cases across the EU, and we will file an opposition to defend our client’s rights.
We succeeded in safeguarding an important Japanese domain name for a well-known Swiss chocolatier. Even though Japanese regulations prevent any companies that do not have national presence from registering a Japanese domain name, we managed to provide our Client with a solution that both safeguarded the domain name from being purchased by potential infringers and ( learn more )
We managed to add an important .ch domain name to our client’s portfolio, a well-known Swiss chocolatier. We notified the former owner of the domain name (there were many indications that it were dealing with cyber squatting). After negotiations, we managed to transfer the domain name into the client’s portfolio, in a short time and ( learn more )
A large part of our team has been present at the most important IP-event held this year in Boston, in May 2019. Our colleagues have met several partners and colleagues. They have also negotiated, during face-to-face meetings, key aspects of pending deals in the name of our clients. It was also another year when our ( learn more )