What’s wrong with “Robotoy,”? Whether a trademark can be registered depends on its position on the spectrum, from the strongest -- fanciful to arbitrary to suggestive --- to the weakest – descriptive ...

Suppose you want to register a trademark that identifies a source of goods/services for your business. What if the trademark describes an ingredient, quality, feature, function, characteristic, or ...

In BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH v OHIM, the General Court has upheld a decision of OHIM rejecting a CTM application for ECODOOR for various household appliances, finding that the mark was ...

In Liz Earle Beauty Co Ltd v OHIM, the General Court has given further guidance as to where the boundary lies between those generally descriptive marks that are registrable, and those that are not: a ...