Sector: Retail

A settlement ending a five-year legal battle between Macy’s Department Stores and Strategic Marks has seen the latter take ownership of a number of historical department store brands. Ellia Kassoff, chief executive and president of the company, told <i>World Trademark Review</i> of his resurrection plan for the brands and argued that he should be regarded as a ‘product recycler’ rather than a trademark troll.

01 March 2016

Walt Disney has supplanted Lego as the world’s most powerful brand, according to the Brand Finance Global 500 2016. Acquisition activity has played a key role, with Marvel and Lucasfilm properties propelling the Walt Disney brand up the brand strength league table.

01 February 2016

Following the release of a white paper detailing WeChat’s IP protection efforts in 2015, World Trademark Review has spoken with the China-Britain Business Council about its nascent efforts to establish a dialogue between Tencent and UK rights holders. We also received an update on the council’s ongoing strategic collaboration with Alibaba Group.

29 January 2016

In El Corte Inglés SA v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market, the European Court of Justice set aside an EU General Court judgment insofar as it held that, since the degree of similarity between the signs at issue did not suffice to result in the application of Article 8(1)(b) of the EU Community Trademark Regulation, the conditions for the application of Article 8(5) were therefore also not satisfied.

15 January 2016

No Chinese company attracted greater international attention last year than Alibaba Group, thanks to its record-smashing listing on the NYSE. <em>World Trademark Review</em> sat down with Karen Law in Hong Kong to discuss the brands, the float and the ongoing fight against fakes

27 February 2015