On Thursday 26 February, the Court of Justice of the EU stated, in a press release referring to a judgment of 5 February (C-337/22 P), that the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) can no longer invoke ‘pre-Brexit’ rights after the transition period (which ended at the end of 2020).
An application to register a figurative European Union trade mark for various goods, particularly in the clothing sector, was filed in 2015 (a monkey with the wording APE TEES), explains the...