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

Published

Dec 23 2022

Written By

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.

Practices

Sectors

Retail and Consumer

Regions

Western Europe

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.