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ARTICLE · 25 JUNE 2021

All Circumstances Are Relevant To Assess Bad Faith

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Our colleagues Helena Gajek and Małgorzata Furmańska won the case before the General Court in Luxembourg related to invalidity proceedings concerning the bad faith application.

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Our colleagues Helena Gajek and Malgorzata Furmanska won the case before the General Court in Luxembourg related to invalidity proceedings concerning the bad faith application.

The case was related to the trademark ENTEROSGEL, published in October 2006, for medical products. In 2016 the applicant applied for a declaration of invalidity, claiming that the predecessor of the trademark owner, acted in bad faith when filing a trademark application. The application for a declaration of invalidity was directed against all the goods covered by the contested mark.

Long story short the applicant claimed that the predecessor in law to the intervener, was not allowed to designate the European Union in respect of the contested mark because it was not involved in the development of the product named Enterosgel and secondly, that the predecessor was not the first to apply for the trademark Enterosgel because the Russian "equivalent" trademark application had already been filed on 18 January

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