What Kind of Use is This? - Open Question Aften ONEL/OMEL

Kur, Annette

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What Kind of Use is This? - Open Question Aften ONEL/OMEL

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Kur, Annette
MPI for Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Max Planck Society;

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Kur, A. (2013). What Kind of Use is This? - Open Question Aften ONEL/OMEL. IPRInfo, 3, 8-11.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0014-C45B-A

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Few cases referred to the CJEU were accompanied by such vigorous and passionate political debates as ONEL/OMEL. Stakeholders as well as the Commission were in an acute state of alarm after the Benelux IP Office (BOIP) decided that genuine use made in the Netherlands was not sufficient for the earlier CTM “ONEL” to be considered as a valid ground for opposition against the Benelux trademark application for “OMEL”. Now, more than six months after the CJEU has handed down its decision, commentators remain remarkably silent. Rather than indicating a common understanding that the answers given are satisfactory, this seems to signal the opposite: so much has been left open for anyone’s guessing that it’s impossible to say what the decision actually means.