Category Archives: Trademarks
New Intellectual Property Code
Taxes reduction for Comunity Trademarks
The cost of having a Community trade mark will be cut by 40% to € 900 for online applications from 1 May, the European Commission announced today. OHIM’s President, Wubbo de Boer, speaking at a joint press conference with the European Commissioner for the Internal Market, Charlie McCreevy, said he was delighted that Community trade marks [...]
Winx vs. Witch
The judicial battle between Walt Disney Company Italia S.p.A., owner of the trademark “W.I.T.C.H.”, and Rainbow S.p.A., owner of thre “WINX CLUB” trademark, concluded with the sentence issued by the Civil Court of
Bologna on August 2 2004, inspired me a semninar at the University of Macerata (among the Intellectual Property Law and Commercial Law course), about the [...]
