IP Insights. What will block your trademark registration? Part 3 – Bad faith in trademark applications

If you are unlucky enough to come across a competitor that does not entirely play by the book and fights you with his bad faith trademarks – don’t loose your nerve and read about your rights from today’s IP Insights! The material was prepared by Krzysztof Wasilewski.

In the latest edition, you will learn:

• What exactly is bad faith?
• What must be shown to the IP office to block a trademark application or invalidate an already acquired right?
• Which factors are not necessary to apply the bad faith provisions?
• What are examples from EU-case law?

We invite you to read!

We encourage you to read the other publications in the IP Insights series:

• IP Insights. What will block your trademark registration? Part 2 – Trademarks contrary to public or to accepted principles of morality.
• IP Insights. What will block your trademark registration? Part 1 – Non-distinctive and descriptive trademarks
• IP Insights. Protection of craft and industrial products
• IP Insights. Licenses in gaming
• IP Insights. Synchronization license