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EC's CFI Turns Up Nose At Smell Trademark

Odor trademark stinks? Application for trademark consisting in part of 'the smell of strawberry' rejected by Court of First Instance of the EC, on grounds that the smell can't be graphically represented (Eden v. OHIM). OHIM smells a rat? Smell trademark application makes no scents?

Posted by Marty on October 27, 2005 04:02 PM | Permalink