{"id":2841,"date":"2011-06-14T09:10:51","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T08:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gulliksson.wp-bysted.net\/en\/?p=2841"},"modified":"2016-06-21T09:11:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T08:11:09","slug":"advokatbyran-gulliksson-won-appeal-court-patent-appeals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gulliksson.se\/en\/advokatbyran-gulliksson-won-appeal-court-patent-appeals\/","title":{"rendered":"Advokatbyr\u00e5n Gulliksson won appeal in the court of patent appeals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CUV\u00c9E FORET trademark is likely to be confused with the Community trademark LAFORET and must be removed from the register. This was established by the Swedish Court of Patent Appeals (CPA) in a decision on 19 May 2011, when the Court thus accepted Gulliksson\u2019s arguments in the appeal lodged in June 2009. Unlike the Swedish Patent and Registration Office, the CPA held in favour of Gulliksson and the French trademark owner\u2019s position. The CUV\u00c9E designation in the later trademark must be considered descriptive of wines, since it can be translated as vat, batch, grape harvest or vintage, and the words FORET and LAFORET are both phonetically and visually similar. Read the entire decision (in Swedish) here.<\/p>\n<p>SA Maison Joseph Drouhin registered LAFORET for products in Class 33 for wines, spirits and liqueurs in 2006. The Patent and Registration Office rejected the opposition when Domaine Wines &#038; Spirits of Stockholm AB three years later applied to register CUV\u00c9E FOR\u00caT in Sweden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CUV\u00c9E FORET trademark is likely to be confused with the Community trademark LAFORET and must be removed from the register. This was established by the Swedish Court of Patent Appeals (CPA) in a decision on 19 May 2011, when the Court thus accepted Gulliksson\u2019s arguments in the appeal lodged in June 2009. Unlike the&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gulliksson.se\/en\/advokatbyran-gulliksson-won-appeal-court-patent-appeals\/\" title=\"Read Advokatbyr\u00e5n Gulliksson won appeal in the court of patent appeals\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gulliksson-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gulliksson.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gulliksson.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gulliksson.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gulliksson.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gulliksson.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gulliksson.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2842,"href":"https:\/\/www.gulliksson.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841\/revisions\/2842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gulliksson.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gulliksson.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gulliksson.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}