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🎬📺🎙 Nathalie FAYETTE, founder of MARK & LAW, was the guest of the French program L’Hebdo des PME – Focus PME, to discuss the missions of Industrial Property Attorneys in obtaining, protecting and defending the intellectual property rights of theirs clients in France and abroad. To watch the full interview with english subtitles, visit MARK & LAW‘s LinkedIn page by clicking here.

Beware of the labels on your wine bottles, they sometimes hide an unpleasant surprise. Some inhabitants of the Sarthe region in France (among others) have recently experienced this when they thought they were buying Bordeaux wines. It is well known that Bordeaux wines have a long-standing reputation for quality, dating back to the beginning of the Second Empire, and that this reputation is still very much alive and well, since consumers still turn to these wines quite easily and naturally. The temptation is therefore great for some malicious people to increase their profits by trickery. This is how the police […]

True star of our summer salads, Feta cheese was recently the subject of a decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). This case opposed the European Commission, supported by Greece and Cyprus, and Denmark, which used the name “Feta“ (or “Danish Feta” and “Danish Feta cheese“) for a cheese produced on its territory, mainly from cow’s milk, which it then exported to countries outside the European Union. However, since 2002, the name “Feta” has been registered as a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), which limits the production of this cheese to certain regions of Greece (mainland […]

After 22 years of legal proceedings to get his name back, Manolo Blahnik, the UK-based luxury shoe designer, will (finally) be able to market his products in China. The case dates back to 1999, when a Chinese businessman registered the trademark “Manolo & Blahnik” in China before the luxury designer. However, Chinese legislation applies the “first to file” system (first-come, first-served) to trademarks. This system allows “pirates” (companies or individuals) to obtain exploitation rights on a name, without any real intention to exercise them. These “pirate” registrations can then be resold, usually at high prices, to foreign companies wishing to […]