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Jan 20, 2014
Charlotte Urman, Inlex IP Expertise, France

TM available searches never consist in "Blind test"


Charlotte Urman, Inlex IP Expertise, FranceWhen you have a look at the wording “blind test” on the main search engine on the web from France, i-e Google, most of the first results refer to a musical quiz where the player listen to musical extracts in order to find out the name of the interpreter and the title of the song. Nevertheless, the French Court of Appeal in Paris has just confirmed with a decision dated October 2, 2013, the BLIND TEST constitutes a valid trademark in relation with some kind of games, such as multimedia, online, phone, TV or radio games  read more