Organisation: BASF SE

We scrutinise the data to reveal the 50 companies with the largest portfolios in five major jurisdictions.

13 July 2023

Featured in Trademark register tracker

Drawing on data supplied by the office, WTR presents the leading EUTM and RCD filers at the office for the 12 months to 1 May 2023.

05 July 2023

Featured in Trademark register tracker

World Trademark Review’s annual EUIPO focus assesses current office processes, reveals the most proactive filers and explores how the agency has responded to the impact of covid-19 on its employees, users and offerings.

08 July 2020

Featured in Trademark register tracker

With the EUIPO looking towards a future under new leadership, we asked practitioners for their take on the office’s current operations and activities, and the challenges that the new management will face.

30 August 2018

The EU General Court recently upheld the cancellation of the chemical product trademark DINCH for lack of distinctiveness and generic character. This decision highlights the EU Intellectual Property Office’s stricter approach to signs such as acronyms, and recalls the importance of filing marks which truly depart from the common use of professional fields to avoid nullity or revocation actions.

24 May 2017

In <I>GAT Microencapsulation GmbH v OHIM</I>, the General Court has upheld a decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of OHIM finding that there was a likelihood of confusion between the marks KARIS and CARYX for certain goods in Classes 1 and 5. Among other things, the court held that Nice Classification headings do not constitute a system in which goods or services included in one class or category are precluded from also forming part of another class or category.

20 October 2015