With much surprise to both the EUIPO and most of the legal IP community, the General Court (GC) in a judgment of 16 March 2022 in case Nowhere v. EUIPO holds that UK passing off rights remain valid earlier rights in EUIPO...more
(Judgment of 11 October 2017 in Case C-501/15 P – EUIPO v Cactus) -
The CJEU confirms that two cases which fundamentally changed the EUIPO approach to construing the scope of protection of EUTMs do not have retroactive...more