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The European Parliament has recently approved the new Regulation concerning customs enforcement of intellectual property rights.

A new "IP Fast Action Protocol" has been approved by the Commercial Courts of Barcelona and the European Union Trademark Courts located in Alicante

On 10 June 2015, the Council of the EU's Permanent Representatives Committee (Coreper) approved a compromise agreement on the proposed trade mark reform package...

On 30 March 2016, the President of the Commercial Court of Antwerp (the "President") gave its ruling in a dispute relating to the use of protected trademarks as a domain name by a third party.

In a remarkable case with an unfortunate outcome for the trade mark holder, the ECJ confirmed that a party has the right to claim damages on the basis of a judgment of another Member State's national court.

The underlying national proceedings case pitted Honda (a motor vehicle manufacturer and spare parts supplier) against Maria Patmanidi SA.

The European Parliament (the "Parliament") voted on 25 February 2014 on the trade mark package.

A discussion on a recent Court of Appeal of Brussles order to stop the usage of packaging which resembled the registered Lego brick shape.

Unlike the President, the Court of Appeal found no trade mark violation on any of the grounds relied on by InBev.

Finally, Reber argued that OHIM had violated the principle of equal treatment by reaching different conclusions in similar cases concerning the same opponent.

On 24 March 2015, Advocate General Wahl (the "Advocate General") delivered his opinion in a case pitting Iron & Smith Kft against Unilever NV (Case C‑125/14).

On 7 March 2016, the Government submitted to the Chamber of Representatives a bill on the counterfeiting of medical products and similar crimes involving threats to public health.

It added that Bacardi had not provided enough evidence to show that it had not provided consent for each and every contested good.

When Belgian political party Vlaams Belang used IKEA's trademark and drawings in an anti-immigration campaign, it sparked a landmark EU court decision on the boundaries between political expression and trademark rights. The Court of Justice examined whether political parody provides "due cause" for using another's trademark, weighing freedom of expression against property rights in a case where the trademark owner maintained neutrality on the political message.

On 13 September 2018, the ECJ held in Case C-26/17P, Birkenstock v. EUIPO, that Birkenstock's pattern of wavy lines crisscrossing at right angles in a repetitive sequence could not be protected as a figurative mark.

In 2012, Van Haeren started selling high-heeled women's shoes with red soles.

In three judgments issued on 5 May 2015, the General Court of the European Union denied the registration of "SKYPE" as a Community trade mark.