TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2010
Yearly Overview - Decisions of the Boards of Appeal - 2009 While everybody is at INTA, OHIM's Department of Industrial Property Policy published the 2009 yearly overview of decisions of the Boards of Appeal, containing references to selected decisions drawn from the almost 1900 cases dealt with by the Boards of Appeal during 2009. It is organised according to legal criteria such as procedural issues or grounds for refusal and should allow the practitioner a quick overview over the burgeoning case law. You can find the PDF here. This is what the overview has to say about the 2009 case law on absolute grounds for refusal of the registration of single letters as trade marks (bold by Class46):
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