The June 2017 issue of the European Trade Mark Reports (ETMR) has now been published.

To remind readers, the ETMR is a series of law reports published monthly by Sweet & Maxwell. It contains English-language reports, together with informative headnotes, of recent decisions from national and EU courts and intellectual property offices.  

This issue contains two decisions. The first is a High Court (Chancery Division) decision from England and Wales, this being a battle over the use of the www.argos.com domain name by a US trader whose online footprint extended to the UK, to the anger of the owner of the ARGOS trade mark.  The second, a General Court ruling, addressed the respective lists of goods and services attached to the applicant's word mark PALOMA and the opponent's figurative mark containing the same word: basically, how close are fruits and flowers?

MARQUES members are reminded as usual that, if they have been involved in European trade mark litigation which is of significant interest, and if they can provide an English-language text of the full decision of the court, the ETMR will be delighted to consider it for publication. Communications should be sent to the Editor, Dr Stavroula Karapapa at s.karapapa@reading.ac.uk.