Advocate General Maciej Szpunar considers that EU law precludes registration as trade marks of shapes which result from the functionality of the goods and shapes whose aesthetic characteristics determine the attractiveness of the goods concerned
Date of article: 14/05/2014
Daily News of: 14/05/2014
Country: 
EUROPE
Author: Court of Justice of the European Union
Article language: en
Reserving the benefit of such shapes to a single operator amounts to allowing that operator to obtain an unfair advantage on the market, thereby undermining the objective of trade mark protection