Nathalie FAYETTE
March 11, 2022
[FOCUS ON OUR CLIENTS 🌟] Thanks to a partnership between the TCL network and the Zoo Art Show collective, for a month now, trams have been running on the TCL network dressed with numerous works by street artists. This great initiative, highlighted under the name REZOO®, allows to democratize street-art and to make it known to a wider public, but also and above all it gives a wide access to culture to a very large number of people, by using the particularly extensive tram network of the Lyon Metropolis as a support for these mobile artworks. Congratulations to Zoo Art Show and […]
March 3, 2022
The dispute between car manufacturers Polestar and CitroĂ«n since 2018 continues. As a reminder, the company Polestar, a car manufacturer based in Sweden and Volvo’s in-house tuner, filed two European Union trademarks in 2017, to designate vehicles in class 12, consisting of two chevrons facing each other to form a star: CitroĂ«n sued Polestar before the Judicial Court of Paris for infringement of its “double-chevron” trademarks, infringement of its reputed trademarks and, alternatively, unfair competition and parasitism. On December 14, the Paris Court of Appeal upheld the judgment of the Judicial Court that the disputed Polestar signs infringe on the […]
February 11, 2022
The European Commission is renewing and improving its grant fund for SMEs “ideas powered for business” from 16 January to 16 December 2022. The objective is to support European SMEs in protecting their innovations by helping them to protect their inventions, trademarks and products through industrial property rights with the payment of official fees. The Fund is accessible to SMEs established in the European Union. For a French company, two types of fundings are available: A cheque up to 1500€ is available for the payment of filing and registration fees for trademarks and/or designs at European or national level (75% of the amount of […]
February 4, 2022
As of March 27, 2022, it will be possible to protect your trademark in Jamaica via the international procedure governed by the Madrid System. The Madrid System simplifies the trademark registration process through the filing of a single international trademark application for up to 126 countries, and a centralised management system, where each state examines the application independently from each other, according to their own legislation. Thanks to the simple and rapid designation procedure provided by the Madrid System, French or foreign companies and trademark owners will be able to apply for protection of their trademarks under the Madrid System when they market or plan to […]