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In Universal Standard Inc. v Target Corp. (S.D.N.Y., No. 18 Civ. 6042), the US District Court for the Southern District of New York addressed the question of whether sharing attorney-client privileged communications with a public relations firm destroys that privilege. The court found that Universal Standard waived the privilege by including its public relations firm, BrandLink, in emails discussing strategy related to the lawsuit.

Last month Utynam attended the 31st MARQUES Annual Conference in Prague. Here are some highlights

Over the weekend Turkish police raided 137 stores in Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar. The biggest trade mark raid ever in the market, it follows similar actions focusing on piracy and pharmaceuticals

In May 2010, then deputy commissioner of Patents and Trademarks Noah Shalev Shlomovits ruled that the cigarette brand Eva, produced by Bulgarian manufacturer Aktsionerno Droujestvo Bulgartabac is not confusingly similar to the Eve brand of cigarettes produced by Philip Morris, allowing Eva to be registered as a trade mark.

The International Trademark Association argues that the Christian Louboutin v Yves Saint Laurent case “is vitally important to the development of trade mark law” in an amicus brief filed yesterday

In December 2010 and January 2011, Szekely Domokos Szabolcs filed two national trade mark applications consisting of the figurative element showing an interdiction sign of a pregnant woman drinking:

In several cases, a trade mark cannot be registered, even if it has sufficient distinctiveness, because there is an identical or similar trade mark previously registered or applied for to distinguish the same goods or services. Even though the Trade Mark Law does not specifically use the terms "confusion or likelihood of confusion", its main purpose is to avoid this situation. Section 3 of the Law says that a trade mark identical or similar to one previously registered or applied for to distinguish the same goods or services cannot be registered.

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