This case illustrates the potential advantages of explicitly excluding certain goods from your trade-mark application. Let’s suppose you are a tire manufacturer with the registered mark POTENZA for “tires, tubes and wheels” that you have held for 30 years. A high-end Italian bicycle parts manufacturer decides to try to register the mark POTENZA for “bicycle parts […]
Archive | January, 2014
2014: The US Supreme Court wrestles with patents
Over the past few years, IP has been in the spotlight south of the border. It seems that not a day goes by without a patent, trade-mark or copyright story in the popular press (e.g. see smartphone wars). Changes in the law have also been coming at a fast pace. Witness the US implementation of […]