The online giant filed four applications for trademark slogans with the UK’s Intellectual Property Office, including “No Queue, No Checkout. (No, Seriously)” and “Every Queue is a Defect”.
The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment has approved the Patent and Registration Office’s (PRH) proposal for changes to some of its fees. The changes also apply to trademark fees: some will rise and some will fall.
Examples of new fees
Fees valid from 1 May 2017 (current fee in brackets):
商標登録出願/ trademark application 紙出願/ paper application 275 euros (250 euros) 電子出願/ online application 225 euros (215 euros) 2区分以上の区分ごとの割り増し料 class fee for each class beyond the first 100 euros (80 euros) 更新登録/ renewal of registration 紙/on paper 275 euros (300 euros) 電子/online 225 euros (275 euros) 2区分以上の区分ごとの割り増し料 class fee for each class beyond the first 100 euros (125 euros) 異議申立/ filing an opposition against a registration 275 euros (215 euros)
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キットカット(Kitkat)のチョコレートの4つ指の3D形状については、自他商品を識別する機能がないとの理由で、英国控訴裁判所は控訴したネッスルの主張を退ける判断をしています。英国控訴裁判所の判事は、4つ指構造のチョコレートの形状はキットカットの形状として広く知られているが、それを以ってその形状がオリジナルであるとすることはできず、その形状だけで1つの提供者からの商品と認識されるものではないと判断しています。 Kitkait Four Finger Bar
The confectionery multinational Nestlé has lost the latest round of its long-running battle with rivals Cadbury to trademark the shape of the KitKat bar in the UK. The court of appeal ruled that the four-finger design had “no inherent distinctiveness”.
As part of the effort to improve the integrity of the trademark register, the USPTO is exploring the possibility of a streamlined version of the existing inter partes abandonment and nonuse grounds for cancellation before the USPTO’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”).