INTA Committees selection

INTA Committees selection

NEWS INTA Committees selection We are pleased to announce that partners of Żuraw Gierszewski have been just appointed to the INTA committees for the 2020–2021 term. Monika Żuraw, PhD will be a member of the INTA Famous and Well-Known Marks Committee and Wojciech...
Spare parts status – registered designs

Spare parts status – registered designs

AKTUALNOŚCI Spare parts status – registered designs We are pleased to inform that we have successfully completed two proceedings regarding the sale of aluminium rims by our client, in relation to which two big car companies claimed that it constitutes an...
Spare parts status – registered designs

The meaning of earlier trademarks

NEWS The meaning of earlier trademarks In the opposition registration system the registrar (e.g. the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland or EUIPO) examines only absolute grounds of refusal. It is non-distinctiveness or descriptiveness of a designation that most...
CJEU on the effect of so called disclaimers

CJEU on the effect of so called disclaimers

AKTUALNOŚCI CJEU on the effect of so called disclaimers (Judgement of 12 June 2019, case no. C-705/17, Hansson)The CJEU, responding to the questions referred by the Court of Appeal in Stockholm about the legal effect of exemptions from protection of non-distinctive...