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What A Pain!

The European Court of Justice has simply delivered its eagerly-awaited determination this morning time inwards Case C-107/03 Procter & Gamble 5 OHIM (bar of soap) inwards French. This is then frustrating, since in that place wasn't fifty-fifty a published Advocate General's Opinion together with right away nosotros accept the judgment nosotros aren't whatever wiser. As predicted past times the IPKat yesterday, the ECJ has dismissed the applicant's appeal, presumably for the same reasons equally the Court of First Instance did inwards Dec 2002 inwards Case T-63/01 (happily available inwards English linguistic communication here). If that's the case, the bar of lather isn't distinctive; people seeing it wouldn't mean value "wow, that's a merchandise mark" but "that's a slice of soap". And they'd survive right.

gathers that "pain de savon" is the French for "bar of soap". But the existent "pain" is that of having to rely on the kindness of others to elucidate the subtleties of the ruling for him. Perhaps, equally a gesture of compromise together with reconciliation, the ECJ volition homecoming their side past times side determination into Franglais.

Plus de Franglais ici et ici

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