Directive 2015/2436 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2015 to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trademarks provides in Art. 45 that Member States shall provide for an efficient and expeditious administrative procedure before their offices for...
On July 22, 2022, the Geneva Act of 1999 of the Hague Agreement concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs will enter into force in Morocco. It is worth noting that Morocco has been a contracting State of the Hague Act of 1960. With the adhesion to...
CURELL SUÑOL has been recommended in the Financial Times’ Europe’s Leading Patent Law Firms 2022 ranking. Clients and peers feed into research of the Europe’s Leading Patent Law Firms to create the latest listing of the continent’s top intellectual property firms. We appreciate their trust and...
If there is one topic that everyone is talking about, it is the metaverse. This term, which seems futuristic, appeared 30 years ago in the science fiction novel Snow Crash (1992), where Neal Stephenson describes a type of collective virtual space, compatible with physical reality, which he calls...
The month of April has brought us a new revision of the EUIPO Examination Guidelines. And, this time, they propose an important change that will affect the strategy behind the withdrawal of certain EU trademark applications. Which is the proposed change? Decisions refusing EUTM applications on absolute...
As many will recall, a year ago, the Commercial Court No. 5 of Barcelona upheld the legal action of Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH (“Vorwerk”), manufacturer of the Thermomix® multi-purpose kitchen appliance, against the supermarket chain Lidl Supermercados, S.A. (“Lidl”), declaring that Lidl’s “SilverCrest Monsieur...
We are most pleased to inform you that, once again, in the 2022 World Survey #IPStars of the magazine Managing Intellectual Property, CURELL SUÑOL has been ranked Tier One in Trademark Prosecution. Thanks to our great team and also to our clients and colleagues for trusting...
We are pleased to share with you that WTR 1000 has once again ranked CURELL SUÑOL as a Silver Band IP Law firm: “For over 70 years, Curell Suñol has been developing and executing ironclad trademark strategies; and its diversely trained lawyers and technical specialists...
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