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WEST v. WESTLIFE

By Marty Schwimmer on May 9, 2005
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I didn’t know there was an Irish boyband named WESTLIFE but the fact that its record label’s application for WESTLIFE was rejected by the EU’s Court of First Instance, because of prior rights in WEST owned by a German cigarette company, has gotten a lot of press coverage.

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Martin Schwimmer is a partner in Leason Ellis, an IP law boutique in White Plains, NY. His practice is concentrated in the area of U.S. and international trademark law and domain name counseling, prosecution and litigation.

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