The Scottish Court of Session has ordered Lidl to temporarily stop selling its “Hampstead” gin, because it is too similar to the “Hendrick’s” gin. Lidl’s gin has been sold for about ten years, but in 2020 the well-known German discount chain decided to renew both the...
Zoom Video Communications, Inc., owner of the Zoom platform, recently sued RingCentral asking for an injunction preventing the latter, after a long-lasting partnership, from using the “Zoom” brand. According to the complaint, Zoom and RingCentral have...
On September 27, 2019, the Government of Malaysia submitted to WIPO its accession form to the Madrid Protocol on the International registration of trademarks, bringing the total number of member countries in the Convention on international trademarks to 106. Malaysia...
A knight resembling Don Quixote, a lean horse and windmills. It was against the use of these images on dairy products by Industrial Quesera Cuquerella that Fundaciόn Queso Manchego brought an action in Spain with a view to protecting local cheeses covered by the...
WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization, has published data relating to the year 2018 on “cybersquatting”, i.e. registration, for speculative ends, of domain names which fully or partly include another person’s name, trademark or other distinguishing...
