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On 21 December 2018, the Fourth Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office allowed the registration of the Bacardi bottle as a figurative European Union trade mark.

InBev brought a cease-and-desist action before the Court for infringement of its Jupiler trademark.

On 20 March 2014, the President of the Brussels Commercial Court ruled on a dispute between Christian Louboutin and Van Dalen Footwear B.V.

On 8 June 2011, the Brussels Commercial Court (the "Court") issued a judgment in a case between Powerdrinks Group BVBA ("Powerdrinks") and Red Bull GmbH ("Red Bull"), two producers of energy drinks, regarding the protection of Red Bull’s colour trade mark.

On 11 April 2019, the ECJ issued its judgment in the ÖKO-Test Verlag case (C-690/17) on the interpretation of Regulation 207/2009 on the European Union trade mark and Directive 2008/95 on the approximation of the laws ...

First, the Court looked at Cadbury's assertion that the trade mark had not been used with respect to all the relevant goods.

In reaching this conclusion, the Court referred to the Belgian regulatory framework which embraces the principle of "therapeutic freedom" which, as a rule, prohibits substitution in the deliverance of medicines.

On 23 April 2013, the General Court of the European Union (the "GC") upheld an earlier decision of the Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market to invalidate a registered Community design ("RCD") of Su-Shan Chen ("Chen") on account of an infringement of an earlier registered 3D trade mark of AM Denmark A/S ("AM Denmark").

The Common Practice set out in the Common Communication emphasises the importance of non-distinctive or weak components of a trade mark in the overall assessment of likelihood of confusion on relative grounds cases.

On 6 February 2018, Advocate General Szpunar (the "AG") issued a second opinion in the dispute opposing Christian Louboutin ("Louboutin") against Van Haeren Schoenen BV ("Van Haeren") .

In its judgment of 29 March 2012, the General Court ("GC") confirmed the decision of the Office of Harmonisation for the Internal Market.

Today the metaverse is still a mystery to many. There are more questions than answers. Particularly in relation intellectual property rights ("IPR") infringements in these emerging worlds.

On 25 July 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union held in case C-129/17, Mitsubishi Shoji Kaisha Ltd & MCFE BV v. Duma Forklifts NV and GSI International BVBA, that the debranding and rebranding ...

On 19 December 2018, the Fourth Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office found in favour of Beats Electronics and annulled a decision of the EUIPO's Opposition Division of 29 March 2018.

In a judgment of 5 December 2011, the Commercial Court of Brussels (the "Court") rejected claims brought by Lego Juris AS ("Lego") that the packaging of watches sold by TKS SA ("TKS") infringed the shape trade mark of its Lego bricks.

Since 1972, Stokke has marketed on the Scandinavian market a children’s chair called the ‘Tripp Trapp’. Since 1995 it has also commercialised its product on the Dutch market.

The ECJ provided guidance on the circumstances under which a trade mark may lose distinctiveness and become generic.