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Jun 17, 2013
Corinne Day, Field Fisher Waterhouse, United Kingdom
First published on Field Fisher Waterhouse SnIPpets IP Blog and www.ffw.com

What constitutes genuine use of a trade mark?


Corinne Day, Field Fisher Waterhouse, United Kingdom, First published on Field Fisher Waterhouse SnIPpets IP Blog and www.ffw.comThe Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled on what constitutes genuine use of a trade mark within the meaning of Article 15(1) of Community Trade Mark Regulation 40/94 in the recent case of Colloseum Holding AG v Levi Strauss & Co. (Case C‑12/12). Levi Strauss is the owner of German word and figurative trade mark (which contains the word element LEVI’S in a red rectangular element at the left upper edge  read more