Nike loses trade mark case at Court of Justice
19 January 2012
Simon Crompton, London
The Court of Justice of the EU has set aside a ruling by the General Court over trade mark transfers and rights of opposition, which itself disagreed with OHIM’s Board of Appeal
The ruling ends a case that goes back to 2006, when Spaniard Aurelio Munoz Molina tried to register R10 as a Commuity trade mark. DL Sports & Marketing opposed the registration, saying it already used the mark – though it had not registered it.
DL did not provide evidence of this right within the four months given to it by OHIM, or in the two-month extension it was granted. A...
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