Non-traditional trade marks

  • Sound marks allowed in Canada

    March 30, 2012

    The Canadian IP Office has published a practice note indicating that it will now accept applications for sound trade marks

  • White bottle trade mark denied in Australia

    February 15, 2011

    Australia’s Registrar of Trade Marks has rejected an application to trade mark the colour white for juice bottles in a decision that underlines the need for strong evidence when applying for colour marks

  • Yakult wins 3D trade mark in Japan

    November 17, 2010

    Japan’s IP High Court has ruled that Yakult should be granted a three-dimensional trade mark for the bottle it uses to sell its probiotic drinks

  • Goats, bricks and total colour management

    October 08, 2010

    Goats eating grass on a restaurant roof might be a surreal basis for a trade mark infringement claim, but it was just one of the many examples given in a session on non-traditional marks at the AIPPI Congress this week

  • Lego loses long-running battle over 3D brick mark

    September 15, 2010

    Danish toy maker Lego has lost a 14-year battle to have its building bricks protected as a Community trade mark

  • WIPO states set to agree rules on non-traditional marks

    August 20, 2010

    Member states of the Singapore Treaty will discuss introducing harmonised rules on non-traditional trade marks when they meet in Geneva next month

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