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Showdown! - General Court annuls the annulment of the ‘Winnetou’ trade mark

2016; Oxford University Press; Volume: 11; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/jiplp/jpw062

1747-1540

Birgit Clark,

European and International Law Studies

The General Court of the European Union upheld an appeal by publishing house Karl-May-Verlag GmbH against the EU Intellectual Property Office’s decision, then called OHIM, to annul the former’s Community trade mark WINNETOU, confirming that the Office should not have granted the application for a declaration of invalidity brought by Constantin Film Produktion GmbH without assessing, independently, whether the sign Winnetou was descriptive for the goods and services covered.