Organisation: Siemens

<i>World Trademark Review</i> presents its annual focus on the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market, polling users to gauge sentiment on its performance, assessing the impact of upcoming legislative changes and presenting updates direct from Alicante.

31 August 2014

In <I>BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH v OHIM</I>, the ECJ has upheld a decision of the General Court in which the latter had found that a mark that is descriptive of the characteristic of a component in a product could also be descriptive of the essential characteristics of the product itself.

18 July 2014

In <I>In re Hitachi High-Technologies Corp</I>, the TTAB has affirmed the refusal to register Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation’s application for the mark OPTICROSS, based on a likelihood of confusion with registered OPTI marks owned by Optimize Technologies Inc. Among other things, the TTAB held that references to a family of marks do not belong in an <I>ex parte</I> proceeding.

07 March 2014

New economic research on global brand investment has revealed that companies spend nearly a half-trillion dollars annually on branding. Later this month, a study into the European public’s perception of IP will be published, providing insight into whether consumers value brands as highly as the companies investing in them.

14 November 2013

In <i>BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH v OHIM</i>, the General Court has upheld a decision of OHIM rejecting a CTM application for ECODOOR for various household appliances, finding that the mark was descriptive of an essential characteristic of the goods applied for, namely, the ecological character of the applicant’s doors.

26 February 2013