No Christmas (trade mark) cheer for Iceland Foods at Grand Board of Appeal

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Peter Brownlow

Partner
UK

I work as a partner here at Bird & Bird in London, specialising in intellectual property. Over the years, I have helped build a market leading practice in trade mark, copyright, design and database rights.

The EUIPO Grand Board of Appeal released its decisions in the high-profile battle over two ICELAND trade marks. The UK supermarket, Iceland Foods Ltd, lost its fight to stop its two EU marks from being knocked off the register, following successful cancellation actions by the country of Iceland.