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Now in its sixth year, Class 46 is dedicated to European trade mark law and practice. This weblog is written by a team of enthusiasts who want to spread the word and share their thoughts with others.


	FRIDAY, 27 AUGUST 2010 "Absurd trade mark disputes" Further to our earlier post on the trade mark dispute concerning eiPott and iPod (see our post here), German newspaper "Die Wirtschaftswoche - wiwo.de" has published a lovely little gallery of "absurd trade mark disputes" from Apple v eiPott (unfair advantage) to the Pudel v Puma and Purple postcard cases (trade mark satire). The article is in German but some of the images ("Pudel v Puma", see left) are self explanatory and may also amuse non German speakers. With thanks to Markenblog.de. Posted by: Birgit Clark @ 07.11 Tags: satire, Germany, trade mark disputes, ,

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