The July 2017 issue of the European Trade Mark Reports (ETMR) has now been published, a few days before its cover date.

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.  

Five decisions are reported in this issue.  Two are from England and Wales. One, from the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court, features a wonderful mixture of issues, including a claim for groundless threats of infringement. It's Azumi Ltd v Zuma's Choice Pet Products Ltd and it reflects well on that court's ability to process a multitude of legal issues swiftly and efficiently. There's also another in the apparently endless succession of rulings on the adidas three stripe marks, this time a cancellation decision from the EUIPO's Second Board of Appeal.

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.