What do you mean by «enforce» a trademark or patent? thx On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 01:30:02PM +0100, Rob Bradford wrote: > On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 16:59, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 01:25:20PM +0200, Ignacio García Fernández wrote: > > Can someone familiar with Spanish IP law comment on what weight is given > > to "prior art" in the case of a trademark challenge? I'm assuming that, > > one way or another, some money will have to be spent on lawyers to fix > > this. > > I'm interested in whether this in fact an issue, primarily because if > they tried to enforce the trademark prior usage should be easy to find > given that the date of the trademark issuing is May 2001. Hence the > trademark becomes unenforcable, i'm not sure whether it is worth wasting > time and money on attempting to get this revoked. *shrug* Maybe > consulting an expert on Spanish law would be a good idea as you say. > > Under some jurisdictions if a company does not enforce a trademark then > that trademark enters the public domain. This completely different to a > patent where you can enforce it whenever you want. *Theoretically* > trademark law should be standardised across the EU. > > Cheers > -- > Rob 'robster' Bradford > Founder: http://www.debianplanet.org/ > Developer: http://www.debian.org/ > Monkey with keyboard: http://www.robster.org.uk/ -- May the source be with you -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ignacio García Fernández <ignacio.garcia@uv.es> Instituto de Robótica. Universidad de Valencia. Tlf. 96 398 3583 http://shannon.irobot.uv.es/~ignacio/
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