EU justice overturned the EUIPO decision on the Obelix trademark
The General Court of the European Union, the court of first instance of the CJEU, has backed this Wednesday the publishing house responsible for the Astérix and Obélix comics against the registration as a trademark of the denomination ‘Obelix’ in favor of a Polish company dedicated to the manufacture of firearms, ammunition, and explosives…Consequently, the resolution indicates that this assessment cannot be limited, as the EUIPO mistakenly did, to stating that there are too significant differences between the affected products and services and that the respective audiences do not coincide.
Source: The EU blocks Obelix’s registration as a weapons trademark | Demócrata
