Trademark War Over VIPS
SIGLA SA v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (Elleni Holding BV, other party) (Case T-215/03)
CFI
22 March 2007
Weekly Law Notes Summary
The risk that the use of a trade mark applied for would take unfair advantage of the distinctive character or repute of an earlier mark existed where a consumer, without necessarily confusing the commercial origin of the product in question, was attracted by the mark itself and would buy the product on the ground that the mark was identical or similar to the earlier mark.