Trademarks and trade names

One year later It has been a year (and a little more) since trademark invalidity and revocation proceedings became the competence of the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO), in accordance with Directive (EU) 2015/2436 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December...

Limitation on the referential use of a third party's trademark The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has just answered the question referred for a preliminary ruling by the Spanish Supreme Court in the context of infringement proceedings concerning the trademark ZARA, which have...

On 14 January last, the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO) assumed direct competence for resolving applications for invalidity and revocation. With this change, the Trademark Law establishes that: The competence to declare the invalidity and revocation of the distinctive signs regulated in this Law shall correspond directly...

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