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Polish IP & IT law – copyright trademark computer internet telecomm » bad faith
Archive for: bad faith
Categories: Art. 129(2)(ii) IPL | Art. 131(2)(i) IPL | Art. 132(2)(ii) IPL | bad faith | Polish Act on Industrial Property Law | Polish courts | Polish institutions | Polish law | Polish Patent Office | Polish Supreme Administrative Court | similarity of goods | similarity of services | similarity of signs | trade mark co-ownership | trade mark invalidation | trademark law | Voivodeship Administrative Court. Trade mark law, case II GSK 1542/12
Categories: Art. 132(2)(ii) IPL | bad faith | Polish Act on Industrial Property Law | Polish courts | Polish institutions | Polish law | Polish Patent Office | Polish Supreme Administrative Court | similarity of goods | trade mark invalidation | trademark law | Voivodeship Administrative Court. Trade mark law, case II GSK 730/12
Categories: Art. 132(2)(ii) IPL | Art. 246 IPL | bad faith | Polish Act on Industrial Property Law | Polish courts | Polish institutions | Polish law | Polish Patent Office | Polish Supreme Administrative Court | trade mark opposition | trademark law | Voivodeship Administrative Court. Trade mark law, case VI SA/Wa 1716/11
Categories: Art. 132(2)(ii) IPL | Art. 165 IPL | Art. 169(1)(i) IPL | bad faith | legal interest | Polish Act on Industrial Property Law | Polish courts | Polish institutions | Polish law | Polish Patent Office | trade mark invalidation | trademark law | Voivodeship Administrative Court. Trade mark law, case II GSK 2324/11
Categories: 3D trade mark | acquired distinctiveness | Art. 132(2)(ii) IPL | Art. 132(2)(iii) IPL | Art. 140 CC | bad faith | distinctive character | exhaustion of trade mark rights | famous trade marks | likelihood of confusion | non-traditional trade marks | Polish Act on Industrial Property Law | Polish Civil Code | Polish law | Polish Patent Office | Polish Supreme Administrative Court | Polish Supreme Court | product packaging | reputed trade marks | similarity of goods | similarity of signs | trade mark infringement | trade mark invalidation | trademark law | Voivodeship Administrative Court. Trade mark law, case II GSK 883/11
Categories: Art. 161 IPL | Art. 165 IPL | Art. 315 IPL | Art. 6bis Paris Convention | Art. 6septies Paris Convention | bad faith | Paris Convention | Polish Act on Industrial Property Law | Polish Supreme Administrative Court | trademark law. Trade mark law, case VI SA/Wa 2041/11
Categories: Art. 132(2)(ii) IPL | Art. 151 PBAC | Art. 153 IPL | Art. 164 IPL | Art. 8(1) TMA | Art. 9(1)(i) TMA | bad faith | Polish Act on Industrial Property Law | Polish Act on Proceedings Before Administrative Courts | Polish Act on Trade marks | Polish courts | Polish law | similarity of signs | trade mark invalidation | trademark law | Voivodeship Administrative Court. Trade mark law, case VI SA/Wa 617/11
Categories: Art. 131(1)(i) IPL | Art. 131(2)(i) IPL | Art. 132(1)(ii) IPL | bad faith | company name or firm | personal rights or interests | Polish Act on Industrial Property Law | trade mark opposition | trademark law | Voivodeship Administrative Court | well known trade marks. Trade mark law, case VI SA/Wa 211/11
Categories: Art. 132(2)(iii) IPL | Art. 4(5) Directive 89/104 | bad faith | Directive 89/104/EEC | famous trade marks | letter of consent | likelihood of confusion | Polish Act on Industrial Property Law | Polish courts | reputed trade marks | similarity of goods | similarity of signs | trade mark invalidation | trademark law | Voivodeship Administrative Court. Trade mark law, case II GSK 611/10
Categories: Art. 107 §3 APC | Art. 141 §4 PBAC | Art. 145 PBAC | Art. 3(2) Directive 89/104 | Art. 4(4)(b) Directive 89/104 | Art. 7 APC | Art. 77 APC | Art. 8(1) TMA | Art. 80 APC | bad faith | Directive 89/104/EEC | EU law | Polish Act on Proceedings Before Administrative Courts | Polish Act on Trade marks | Polish Administrative Proceedings Code | Polish Supreme Administrative Court | reputed trade marks | trade mark invalidation | trademark law | well known trade marks. Trade mark law, case VI SA/Wa 2154/10
Categories: Art. 107 §3 APC | Art. 315 IPL | Art. 7 APC | Art. 77 APC | Art. 8 APC | Art. 8(1) TMA | Art. 80 APC | bad faith | Polish Act on Industrial Property Law | Polish Act on Trade marks | Polish Administrative Proceedings Code | trade mark invalidation | trademark law | Voivodeship Administrative Court. Trade mark law, case VI SA/Wa 86/11
Categories: Art. 129(1)(ii) IPL | Art. 131(2)(i) IPL | bad faith | descriptive character | distinctive character | Polish Act on Industrial Property Law | trade mark invalidation | trademark law | Voivodeship Administrative Court. Trade mark law, case VI SA/Wa 1860/10
Categories: Art. 131(2)(i) IPL | Art. 132(2)(ii) IPL | Art. 132(2)(iii) IPL | bad faith | famous trade marks | likelihood of confusion | Polish Act on Industrial Property Law | reputed trade marks | similarity of goods | similarity of signs | trade mark invalidation | trademark law | Voivodeship Administrative Court | well known trade marks. Trade mark law, case II GSK 91/10
Categories: Art. 8(2) TMA | bad faith | company name or firm | personal rights or interests | Polish Act on Trade marks | Polish Supreme Administrative Court | similarity of signs | trade mark invalidation | trademark law. Trade mark law, case VI SA/Wa 827/10
Categories: Art. 107 §3 APC | Art. 131(1)(ii) IPL | Art. 131(2)(i) IPL | Art. 161 IPL | Art. 6septies Paris Convention | Art. 7 APC | Art. 77 APC | Art. 80 APC | bad faith | Paris Convention | Polish Act on Industrial Property Law | Polish Administrative Proceedings Code | similarity of signs | trade mark invalidation | Voivodeship Administrative Court. Trade mark law, case VI SA/Wa 785/10
Categories: Art. 107 §3 APC | Art. 11 TMA | Art. 145 PBAC | Art. 152 PBAC | Art. 164 IPL | Art. 7 APC | Art. 77 APC | Art. 8(1) TMA | Art. 80 APC | Art. 9(1)(i) TMA | bad faith | Polish Act on Industrial Property Law | Polish Act on Proceedings Before Administrative Courts | Polish Act on Trade marks | Polish Administrative Proceedings Code | similarity of signs | trade mark invalidation | trademark law | Voivodeship Administrative Court. Trade mark law, case II GSK 779/09
Categories: Art. 153 IPL | Art. 161 IPL | Art. 6septies Paris Convention | bad faith | International law | Paris Convention | Polish Act on Industrial Property Law | Polish Supreme Administrative Court | trade mark invalidation | trademark law. Trade mark law, case VI SA/Wa 11/10
On 22 October 1999 Jarosław Synowiec Agencja Kurier-Media from Iława applied for the word-figurative trade mark “KURIER Iławski TYGODNIK POWIATU IŁAWSKIEGO” Z-208891 for goods and services in class 16 and 42 such as publishing and printing a newspaper. The Polish Patent Office refused to grant the right of protection. The PPO found that the applied trade mark is also the title of the magazine with the same graphics and colors, which is published by Wydawnictwo Pomorskie in which Jarosław Synowiec previously worked as editor in chief. Due to long-term presence on the Polish market, this sign became widely known in public. Jarosław Synowiec filed a complaint against this decision.
The Voivodeship Administrative Court in Warsaw in its judgment of 6 July 2010 case file VI SA/Wa 11/10 dissmissed the complaint. According to the Court, the PPO reasonably assumed that the registration of the questioned trade mark was inadmissible because of the conflict with the law and rules of social coexistence. The registration of signs, whose use as a trade mark could be an act of infringement of property rights of third parties, such as the right to the company, the right to press title, copyright, etc. is not allowed. The VAC held also that whenever the collision of the rules specific to the system of formal protection (the principle of registration of signs) with the principle of protection of designations used effectively and genuinely in business occurs, the priority is given to the latter.
Categories: Art. 8(1) TMA | Art. 8(2) TMA | bad faith | personal rights or interests | Polish Act on Trade marks | press title | trade mark examination | trade mark refusal | trademark law | Voivodeship Administrative Court. Trade mark law, case no. Sp. 133/08
Wyborowa S.A. from Poznań filed a request for invalidation of the right of protection for the word-figurative trade mark WYBORNA ŻYTNIA EXCELLENT RYE VODKA BLENDED R-172468 and word-figurative trade mark WYBORNA EXCELLENT VODKA R-172469, both applied for on 1 October 2002, for goods in Class 33 such as alcoholic beverages. The right of protection was granted to PPS Polmos S.A. Warszawa. Wyborowa S.A. argued that there is a confusing similarity to the WÓDKA WYBOROWA R-151215 trade mark and that the application of the both signs was made in bad faith. Wyborowa S.A. relied on an agreement regarding the division of trade marks that were registered for the stated owned Polmos company before socio-economic transformations that have occurred in Poland after 1989. Both WYBORNA R-64663 and WYBORNA WÓDKA R-64855 trade marks were transferred to PPS Polmos S.A. Warszawa. These trade marks received protection in the 90’s, and in 2003, Wyborowa S.A. requested the PPO to decide on the lapse of the right of protection. At the first stage, the PPO dismisses the case due to the lack of legitimate interests of Wyborowa S.A. The Company filed a complaint against this decision and the Voivodeship Administrative Court in its judgment of 12 July 2006 case file VI SA/Wa 704/06 annulled the contested decisions and ruled them unenforceable. The Adjudicative Board of the Polish Patent Office in its final decisions of 28 April 2008 case number Sp. 285/06 and Sp. 543/06 decided on the lapse of the protection. PPS Polmos Warszawa applied again for the right of protection for very similar labels, hence Wyborowa S.A. filed a notice of opposition (dismissed by the PPO) and the request for invalidation, The Adjudicative Board of the Polish Patent Office in its decision of 8 October 2010 case no. Sp. 133/08 invalidated both questioned trade marks. The PPO held that the application of those trade marks was made in bad faith, which was intended to circumvent the law. This was because these signs have been applied for during the proceedings of on the lapse of the above trade marks R-64663 and R-64855. The PPO ruled that Polmos Warszawa still wants to continue to maintain a monopoly and block other entrepreneurs to the use of the Wyborna sign. This is kind of a precedent decision, because the PPO probably for first time in its case-law considered that the re-application for similar signs is contrary to the principles of merchant’s honesty, as a matter of acting in bad faith. The decision is not final yet.
Categories: Art. 131(2)(i) IPL | Art. 132(2)(ii) IPL | bad faith | legal interest | Polish Act on Industrial Property Law | Polish Patent Office | trade mark invalidation | trademark law | Voivodeship Administrative Court. Trade mark law, case VI SA/Wa 347/10
Categories: Art. 107 §3 APC | Art. 145 PBAC | Art. 152 PBAC | Art. 164 IPL | Art. 255 IPL | Art. 7 APC | Art. 77 APC | Art. 8(1) TMA | Art. 8(2) TMA | bad faith | personal rights or interests | Polish Act on Industrial Property Law | Polish Act on Proceedings Before Administrative Courts | Polish Act on Trade marks | Polish Administrative Proceedings Code | trade mark invalidation | trademark law | Voivodeship Administrative Court. Trade mark law, case VI SA/Wa 839/09
Categories: Art. 107 §3 APC | Art. 145 PBAC | Art. 152 PBAC | Art. 164 IPL | Art. 252 IPL | Art. 315 IPL | Art. 7 APC | Art. 77 APC | Art. 80 APC | bad faith | likelihood of confusion | Polish Act on Proceedings Before Administrative Courts | similarity of signs | trade mark invalidation | Voivodeship Administrative Court. Trade mark law, case VI SA/Wa 574/10
Categories: Art. 10bis Paris Convention | Art. 131(1)(i) IPL | Art. 131(2)(i) IPL | Art. 8 Paris Convention | Art. 9 Paris Convention | bad faith | company name or firm | Paris Convention | personal rights or interests | Polish Act on Industrial Property Law | trade mark invalidation | trademark law | Voivodeship Administrative Court. Trade mark law, case Sp. 334/05
Categories: absolute grounds for refusal | Art. 131(2)(i) IPL | Art. 8(1) TMA | bad faith | case law | Polish Act on Industrial Property Law | Polish law | Polish Patent Office | trade mark invalidation | trademark law. Trade mark law, case II GSK 608/09
Categories: Art. 164 IPL | Art. 246 IPL | Art. 255 IPL | Art. 315 IPL | Art. 6bis Paris Convention | bad faith | legal interest | Paris Convention | Polish Supreme Administrative Court | trade mark invalidation | trademark law. Internet domains, case C-569/08
Categories: bad faith | case law | domain names | EU law | EU TLD | generic sign | Internet domains law | Judgments of Court of Justice of the EC | Regulation 874/2004 | trademark law. Trade mark law, case II GSK 344/09
Categories: Art. 8(1) TMA | Art. 9(1)(i) TMA | bad faith | case law | Polish Patent Office | Polish Supreme Administrative Court | reputed trade marks | trade mark invalidation. Trade mark law, case VI SA/Wa 1988/09
Categories: Art. 132(1)(ii) IPL | Art. 132(2)(ii) IPL | Art. 132(2)(iii) IPL | Art. 8(1) TMA | Art. 9(1)(i) TMA | bad faith | case law | Polish Act on Industrial Property Law | Polish Act on Trade marks | Polish Patent Office | reputed trade marks | similarity of signs | Voivodeship Administrative Court. Trade mark law, case II GSK 387/09
Categories: Art. 161 IPL | Art. 6septies Paris Convention | Art. 8(1) TMA | bad faith | case law | Paris Convention | Polish Act on Industrial Property Law | Polish Act on Trade marks | Polish Supreme Administrative Court. Trade mark law, case II GSK 1111/08
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