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Amendments to Industrial Property Law in Poland
On February 20, 2019, the Act on amending the Industrial Property Law was passed. The act was handed over to the President of the Republic of Poland for signature. It will apply from the day after the announcement.
The amendment aims to implement the Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council (EU) 2015/2436 of 16 December 2015 to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks. It also contains a number of other changes related primarily to trademark law.
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The complexity and high level of subjectivity in assessing the likelihood of confusion based on three recent CJEU judgements
A likelihood of confusion exists when consumers can be misled into believing that goods or services bearing the opposing trademarks originate from the same company or from economically linked companies. It is assumed that the assessment of the likelihood of...
Overview of CJEU case law from 12 April 2025 to 4 May 2025
Below we present an overview of CJEU case law concerning intellectual property for the period from 12 April 2025 to 4 May 2025. T-338/24 - Mobility Trader v EUIPO - Cala and Ruiz (hey car select) - The case concerned opposition proceedings (likelihood of confusion). -...
Polish Patent Office confirms broad monopoly of a word trademark (decision of the Polish Patent Office of 15 April 2025 in case Sp.180.2023)
On the 31st of July 2014, a Polish company Browary Regionalne Jakubiak sp. z o.o. filed an application with the Polish Patent Office for a device trademark including word SMOK [EN dragon] for goods in class 32, i.e. beer, non-alcoholic beer. (R.275353, registered on...
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