Once in a while they reappear: phantom invoices. Official-looking bills for some renewal of a trademark or domain name registration. Sometimes, they look so real that you’d pay without thinking twice.
Since the outbreak of the corona crisis, more than 350 trademark registrations that include the word CORONA have been applied for worldwide. It involves the most diverse trademark claims: from CORONA COUTURE for clothing to CORONAYOGA for yoga classes and CORONATOR for a new game. Applicants are not only companies, but often individuals as well.
The Bulgarian company CozZo can start looking for a new logo. Apple recently filed an opposition against the new European trademark registration of the CozZo logo. On 19 March, the European Trademarks Office ruled in favour of Apple.
The Dutch trademark agency Chiever has won the Benelux Trade Mark Firm of the Year Award. Each year, leading British platform Managing Intellectual Property (MIP) hands out these Awards to the best performing and most innovative trade mark agencies from a large number of countries and regions the world over. This year, Chiever was an award winner in the Benelux.