Category: Blog
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Bimbo: a trademark considered to be against public order
On 7 May 2024, the Federal Administrative Court ruled in decision B-4934/2023 that the word “Bimbo” was against the Swiss public order and, as such, could not be registered as a trademark insofar as it contravened art. 2 lit. d of the Trademark Law. While an appeal in front of the Federal Supreme Court is…
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ECJ, 20 June 2024, C-135/23
The fact that a landlord offers his tenants television sets equipped with an internal antenna which makes it possible, without any other means, to receive a signal to broadcast television broadcastings constitutes a communication to the public within the meaning of Article 3(1) of Directive 2001/29. The question remains whether that communication is made to…