Trademark News for 25-Mar-2009
- 'Brewer loses appeal on Budweiser (BBC News)
Brewer Anheuser-Busch loses an appeal to a European Union court to use the trademark Budweiser name across Europe.
'Intellectual Property (Mondaq)
According to the practice of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court, a trademark will not enjoy protection under the Swiss trademark Act if its holder does not intend any serious use of the trademark, but rather registers it in order to prevent registration by third parties or to increase the range of protection of a similar trademark that is already in use.
'Art dealers drop controversial 'Painters 11' trademark (The Globe and Mail)
'There's kind of been mass hysteria over this thing'
''OBX' not valid trademark (Outer Banks Sentinel)
The US Court of Appeals, Eastern District of North Carolina, has upheld a lower court's ruling that the use of "OBX" is a "geographically descriptive abbreviation that has no secondary meaning and therefore is not a valid trademark."
'EU court rejects AB InBev bid to protect Budweiser (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Anheuser-Busch InBev has lost a battle to the "Budweiser" name after an EU court rejected its claim to register the word as a Europe-wide trademark.
'Google in the clouds (The Star)
KUALA LUMPUR: Google is moving beyond its trademark search engine offering for the online consumer and is making further headway towards providing services for businesses.
'AB InBev Loses Court Bid to Expand Budweiser Rights (Update1) (Bloomberg)
March 25 (Bloomberg) -- Anheuser-Busch InBev NV lost a European Union court bid to extend its trademark rights to the name Budweiser for beer across the region?s 27 nations in a long running fight with Budejovicky Budvar NP.
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