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Sentenza del Tribunale dell’Unione Europea 22 settembre 2011, causa T-250/09, MANGINI/MANGIAMI

Pubblichiamo qui a seguire una recente decisione del Tribunale dell’Unione Europea (General Court Settima Sezione – decisione del 22 settembre 2011) in tema di ammissibilità delle prove d’uso del marchio anteriore nei procedimenti di nullità di un marchio comunitario.

Si riassumono brevemente i fatti di causa.

Nel 2006 presentammo per il Cesea Group opposizione al Marchio Comunitario MANGINI sulla base del marchio comunitario MANGIAMI. Controparte promosse, in risposta, un’azione di cancellazione del marchio comunitario della nostra Cliente sulla base di anteriorità nazionali: italiana, francese, tedesca.

In primo grado vincemmo e la cancellazione fu rigettata per insufficienza di prove d’uso.

In appello tale decisione fu ribaltata: il Giudice d’appello ritenne (ora si può dire sbagliando) che controparte potesse integrare, in appello, con ulteriore documentazione le prove d’uso presentate in primo grado.

Judgment of the General Court 22 September 2011, case T-250/09, MANGINI/MANGIAMI

Massimo Cimoli

We hereby publish a recent decision of the General Court of the European Union (Seventh Chamber - Judgment of 22 September 2011) concerning the admissibility of earlier mark’s proofs of use in the cancellation proceedings of a CTM.

The facts of the case are briefly summarized as follows.

In 2006, acting for CESEA GROUP, we filed an opposition to the Community Trademark MANGINI based on the Community Trademark MANGIAMI. Counterparty brought, in response, an action for cancellation of our client’s CTM on the basis of Italian, French and German national priorities.

We won at first instance, and the cancellation was rejected for lack of evidence of use.

That decision was reversed on appeal: the board of appeal deemed (now we can say wrongly) that the counterparty could integrate with additional documentation produced on appeal the evidence of use produced in the first instance proceedings.

Mercato online e abuso di marchio

Domenico de Simone

La Corte precisa la responsabilità delle società che gestiscono un mercato online per le violazioni del diritto dei marchi commesse dai suoi utenti

I giudici nazionali devono poter ingiungere a tali società di prendere misure dirette non solo a far cessare le lesioni arrecate ai diritti di proprietà intellettuale, ma anche a prevenire ulteriori violazioni di tale natura.

New Trademark Opposition Procedure in Italy

Giovanni Orsoni

On 11 July 2011 the Italian Patent and Trademark Office (UIBM), published on its website the first Italian Trademark Bulletin. The current issue (“Bollettino N.1 del 11 luglio 2011”) can be found in PDF format at http://www.uibm.gov.it/uibm/dati/BollettinoMarchi.aspx.

The publication of the online Bulletin, which from now on will be released monthly, is one of the final implementation steps of the new “opposition” system for Italian trademarks, as provided for by Articles 174 to 184 of the Italian Industrial Property Code, implemented by a set of subsequent decrees (the Ministerial Decree no. 33/2010 of 13 January 2010, the Legislative Decree no. 131/2010 of 13 August 2010, and finally the Ministerial Decree of 11 May 2011).

Counterfeit contracts to cover counterfeit products

Lorenzo Litta

The Financial Police has called a press conference to report to “the whole Country” the special outcome of recent anticounterfeiting actions : several national and international TV news programmes, including “TG1” at 8:00 pm (the most viewed news programme in Italy) and the Swiss TV, reported the conference.

The Financial Police encoded the case as “Operazione Pret-A-Porter”.

The case was peculiar because the infringers technique was to find orders pretending to be licensee of a famous fashion brand and showing consistent false license contracts, thus moving on the market as “official manufacturers and licensees” for …

The Financial Police seized 27.000 finished products and 14.000 components (such as labels, buttons…); it found also evidence of completed sales of many further products by the organization to retailers and wholesalers.

Fake products have been sold in Italy, United States, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Switzerland, Greece and Cyprus, at least.

The Financial Police discovered that the organization hired 40 persons who worked “in the black” on the counterfeit products: this brought further attention on the case by the labor unions which declared yesterday night on TV that shall reconsider the problem of counterfeiting also from that standpoint.

Please find herebelow a press/video review on the action for good order of your file.

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Sentenza del Tribunale dell’Unione Europea 22 settembre 2011, causa T-250/09, MANGINI/MANGIAMI

Judgment of the General Court 22 September 2011, case T-250/09, MANGINI/MANGIAMI

Mercato online e abuso di marchio

New Trademark Opposition Procedure in Italy

Counterfeit contracts to cover counterfeit products