IPKat reports and discusses a new decision of the European Court of Justice that upheld the current language regime at OHIM, the "Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market", which is in charge of registering EU trademarks and designs.
That language regime favors the languages with the most speakers (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish). A dutch lawyer and trade mark attorney claimed that was illegal discrimation against the other languages, and lost.
Posted by Karl-Friedrich Lenz at September 11, 2003 12:27 PM | TrackBack