After Apple attacked the pear with much ado last year, both parties suddenly came to a deal at the end of the year and pear gets to stay. What changed Apple’s mind? Literally, half a leaf.
A new cosmetics brand in the European register: Cocoage. It sounds a bit like Coco (Chanel), but for older people! We won’t stand for that, they must have thought at Chanel, and so the French group, which also owns trademark rights for the wordmark Coco, filed an opposition to the new European application of the American Universal Handicraft.
The Spanish clothing brand Scalpers, which also owns stores in the Netherlands, has not succeeded in stopping the European registration of a logo of a skull – also for clothing. Even though Scalpers itself also uses a very similar skull as a logo. The cause of the refusal is clear: Scalpers is missing an important trademark registration.