In Sony v EUIPO, the General Court has annulled a decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the EUIPO finding that proof of
genuine use of a mark had been adduced for «apparatus for the reproduction of sound and images».
Not exact matches
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Use any meta - tags, pay - per - click advertising, or any other «hidden text»
using our Site's name or
marks, and you hereby stipulate that any
use of the Site's name or marks, or any other marks owned by Us is an infringement upon our trademark rights, and you stipulate to make payment of liquidated damages of five thousand dollars ($ 5000) per such infringement as a genuine pre-estimate of the loss and damage that will be suffered by Us as a result of such infringement, plus you agree to pay any and all fees incurred in the recovery of this amount, including attorney's fees and all associated cos
use of the Site's name or
marks, or any other
marks owned by Us is an infringement upon our trademark rights, and you stipulate to make payment
of liquidated damages
of five thousand dollars ($ 5000) per such infringement as a
genuine pre-estimate
of the loss and damage that will be suffered by Us as a result
of such infringement, plus you agree to pay any and all fees incurred in the recovery
of this amount, including attorney's fees and all associated costs;
Hence we conclude that the presbyter is reporting a
genuine tradition, namely
of «
Mark's» association with Peter and his recollection and writing down
of certain things Peter had said in his preaching; and this is all the more probable in that (a) the presbyter
uses the tradition to meet a current objection, and (b) he presses it a little too far — though not so far as Papias does — in meeting the objection.
However, this has not been the approach taken by the EU IPO, or indeed the UK IPO or English High Court2, which have preferred the multifactorial analysis approach taken in the 2012 CJEU decision
of Leno3 where the CJEU stated that «territorial borders
of the Member States should be disregarded in the assessment
of whether a trade
mark has been put to «
genuine use in the Community»... taking account
of all the relevant facts and circumstances, including the characteristics
of the market concerned, the nature
of the goods or services protected by the trade
mark and the territorial extent and the scale
of the
use as well as its frequency and regularity».
At the moment, a brand owner may only be making
genuine use of their EUTM in the UK which is likely to be sufficient to maintain their trade
mark (depending on the circumstances
of the
use).
Taking this approach means that
use of a trade
mark in one Member State can be sufficient for
genuine use if the particular facts and circumstances show the
use is
genuine.
In response to this act, we saw the need to implement an Intellectual Property management system, which included the protection
of a seal
used by the artist as service
mark to cover copyright management, preparation
of structure
of powers between legal heirs to grant copyright licenses
of use, preparation
of certificates
of authenticity for
genuine works and authorised copies, and a notice in social networks to inform public about such copyright management.
The Trademark Office in this case stated that in order to raise a
genuine issue
of material fact as to its intent to
use on a motion for summary judgment, an applicant must rely on specific facts that establish the «existence
of an ability and willingness to
use the
mark in the United States to identify [the goods in the application] at the time
of the filing
of the application.»