Trademark Case Clinic

This seminar is part of the IPR Summer School.

Speaker:

Professor Katja Weckström, University of Eastern Finland

Please read the case T-399/20 and consider what a trademark ’”means”

What criteria/legal basis is used to assess whether

• average consumer
• likelihood of confusion
• identity or similarity of the marks

Case T‑399/20

Cole Haan LLC, established in Greenland, New Hampshire (United States), represented by G. Vos, lawyer
applicant,

v

European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), defendant,
intervener
Samsøe & Samsøe Holding A/S

https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=244145&pageIndex=0&doclang=en&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=3375204