Brussels, 07/02/2011 (Agence Europe) - Directive 98/104/EEC to approximate the laws of the member states relating to trade marks “precludes in principle the long-established honest concurrent use of two identical marks covering identical goods by two different proprietors of the marks”, said Advocate General Verica Trstenjak on 3 February in her opinion in Case C-482/09, responding to a series of questions put by the Appeal Court of England and Wales (UK).
She says that, under the terms...