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Risk of confusion between the word and figurative marks SKYPE and the word mark SKY

11. May 2015

The company Skype registered the word and figurative marks SKYPE as community trademarks with the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market....

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Parody-Trademark: German Federal Court about the cancellation of the leaping poodle

11. May 2015

A trademark, which is a parody of a prior trademark, may be cancelled due to a request of the owner of the prior trademark...

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„Disclaimer“ case law of the technical Board of Appeal (G2/10)

24. April 2015

A disclaimer refers to a single or multiple features in a claim, which typically excludes certain embodiments or parts of a general feature....

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Admissibility of an appeal and necessary content of the appeal substantiation before the European Patent Office regarding T 2532/11 of October 14, 2013

12. February 2015

According to previous decisions two different possibilities were available for the complainant in an appeal before...

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