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Mrz 03, 2014
Charlotte Urman, Inlex IP Expertise, France

Mark and social name, a double-edged wedding!


Charlotte Urman, Inlex IP Expertise, FranceCourts are used to consider the French public as bad students and practitioners in foreign languages, including English. Nevertheless, the French Court of first instance in Paris, within a judgment dated November 22, 2013, had to decide on the distinctive character of the word mark RENT A CAR registered in 1998 to designate different sorts of cars as well as the related services of renting. Here, judges fortunately took into consideration the kind of public concerned by the activities in case. read more