Chanel & Huawei go head to head, again, over interlocking semi-circles.
The first thing you think of when someone say’s ‘brand identity’ is the logo, just like the first thing you think of when someone says ‘Chanel’ are its world famous and instantly recognisable interlinking semi-circles. Well last week saw French luxury fashion house Chanel lose its European court fight against Chinese technology giant Huawei over […]
Michelin win trademark dispute against Japanese wine delivery website.
International tyre giant, Michelin, has been successful in its bid to prevent an individual in Japan from trading under the domain ‘Michelin-wine.tokyo’. The domain had been registered to a wine delivery service website, that featured the following message: “Starred sommelier carefully selected wine delivery service Michelin Starred selection. We will deliver 2 bottles of hidden […]
McGregor looses fight to trademark his name for clothing line.
Once again, a global star is being hindered by not being the first one to use their name as a brand. Last week, Scottish Legal reported that: ‘Conor McGregor has failed in a legal fight with a clothing firm over sportswear that bears his name. The 31-year-old MMA fighter applied to register his name as […]
Why the owner of Boo Consulting has trademarked her brand.
This year, the WIPO is marking World Intellectual Property day by shining the light on how SMEs use their IP rights. So we caught up with our recent client, Linn Boo, founder and managing director of Newquay based Boo Consulting Limited to find out why she decided to trademark her business brand name. What is Boo […]
How Will Brexit Impact EU Trademark Protections?
As you are likely aware by now, in June of 2016, the U.K. public voted on a referendum to leave the European Union. The passing of this referendum, referred to as “Brexit”, was the start of what is proving to be a long and difficult period of negotiation economic uncertainty. Many business owners within the […]