Feb 10, 2022
German luxury brand Hugo Boss is having an identity crisis/rethink and is diverging into two brands, BOSS and HUGO, complete with two new logos. BOSS will be aimed at the millennial market, aged 25-40, while HUGO will target Gen Z, aged under 25. Is this a strategic...
Feb 10, 2022
The question: The recent decision by the General Court in the so-called Moon Boot case (General Court 19 January 2022, Tecnica Group vs. EUIPO, T 483/20) raises once again the question whether it is worth protecting shapes as a trademark within the EU, because the...
Feb 3, 2022
Hot on the heels of Colin v. Cuthbert the Caterpillar and “Glitter Globe Gin Gate”, M&S has kindly (if unintentionally) provided us with yet another brilliant case study in the world of Food & Drink copycats. Just when we were getting used to M&S being the...
Feb 3, 2022
In a recent decision of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division, it was ruled that Gruyere cheese does not have to come from the Gruyere region, a canton of Fribourg, Switzerland – where Gruyere cheese has been produced...
Jan 27, 2022
ADGM chosen as the ideal platform for growth across emerging markets Gulf Capital, a leading thematic alternative investment firm in the GCC and Asia, recently announced that its portfolio company, Cedar White Bradley (CWB) Legal Limited, has opened its new...
Jan 27, 2022
Alt Legal, a leading provider of automated trademark docketing software to over 1,000 global organizations, announced its acquisition of Towergate Informatics’s §2(d) Citation Watch business. With this acquisition, customers of Towergate’s §2(d) Citation Watch will...
