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How PayPal’s award-winning trademark team has embraced crypto

The financial services company’s launch of a cryptocurrency has forced a small trademark team to revolutionise its approach to portfolio management.

WTR Brand Elite analysis: May 2024

Apple was the standout stock market performer through May, with technology brands posting strong results.

Blow for Google as General Court confirms likelihood of confusion between GPAY and EPAY

The court dismissed Google’s argument that the initial letter ‘G’ in its GPAY mark played a significant distinctive – and potentially dominant – role in that mark.

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Elevate the $: geographic isolation helps defeat trademark infringement claim

Five instances of confusion were found to be de minimis and thus insufficient to weigh in favour of a likelihood of confusion.

06 June 2023

WTR Brand Elite analysis: April 2023

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The WTR Brand Elite rose a single point through April, taking it to its highest value level in just over a year.

29 May 2023

WTR award winners revealed: industry elite celebrates in Singapore

Corporate trademark excellence has been celebrated at Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay, with the winners of this year’s WTR Industry Awards announced at an exclusive champagne reception.

18 May 2023

Celebrating in-house leaders: 2023 edition of WTR 300 launches

WTR is pleased to unveil the seventh edition of the WTR 300, which identifies the individuals deemed to be the leading lights of the corporate trademark world.

28 April 2023

Bad faith is bad faith - even where the contested mark is registered for dissimilar goods and services

In this clash between rivals in the bitcoin market, the General Court has held that the Board of Appeal of the EUIPO had erred in its overall assessment of bad faith.

24 April 2023

WTR Industry Awards 2023: shortlisted teams and individuals unveiled

WTR is pleased to reveal the shortlist for the 2023 WTR Industry Awards, with nominees including the corporate trademark teams from Apple, Haleon, Manolo Blahnik, and Treasury Wines Estates.

08 April 2023

No standing to invalidate trademark without threat of infringement suit

At issue in this case was whether, after a party obtains declaratory relief finding that it does not infringe a trademark, it retains Article III standing to invalidate that mark.

24 March 2023