Suppose you want to register a trademark that identifies a source of goods/services for your business. What if the trademark describes an ingredient, quality, feature, function, characteristic, or ...

What’s wrong with “Robotoy,”? Whether a trademark can be registered depends on its position on the spectrum, from the strongest -- fanciful to arbitrary to suggestive --- to the weakest – descriptive ...

In Liz Earle Beauty Co Ltd v OHIM, the General Court has given further guidance as to where the boundary lies between those generally descriptive marks that are registrable, and those that are not: a ...

In Cree Inc v OHIM, the General Court has upheld the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM to refuse to register the mark TRUEWHITE for LEDs on the basis that it was descriptive. Among other ...