OHIM’s Boards of Appeal taking a hard line on absolute grounds against stylised marks, but is this on the right basis?
18 June 2014
Not so long ago, one could simply add a flourish to an entirely descriptive word in order to achieve registration without an objection based on absolute grounds. Well, it looks like we can confidently say that those days are long gone, at least insofar as OHIM’s Board of Appeal is concerned.
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