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Jul 11, 2016
Carissa Kendall-Windless, EIP, United Kingdom
First published on www.eip.com

The ECJ' Advocate-General solves the Rubik's Cube puzzl...


Carissa Kendall-Windless, EIP, United Kingdom, First published on www.eip.comThe Rubik’s Cube is currently protected by a 3D trademark across the EU (Registration No. 162784), but perhaps not for much longer as the Attorney General of the Court of Justice of the European Union recently opined the trademark must be declared invalid on the basis it covers the generic function of the product and would allowing it to survive the cancellation action would promote an unfair competition advantage. On 1 April 1996, Seven Towns filed a community trademark application for registration of a trademark formed by a  read more