Tag: Juli Hopf

Trademark practitioners always get excited when the shape of a product finds itself at the centre of a trademark dispute. Although the shape of goods generally finds itself at the very bottom of the spectrum when it comes to distinctiveness and public perception, most trademark legislation worldwide allows for shapes to be registrable as trademarks.

It was the Roman Statesman, Marcus Tullius Cicero who first used the phrase: Silent enim lēgēs inter arma – In times of war, the law falls silent. These words may still ring true today as the world witnesses the horrifying effects of wars in our time, and the appropriation of property that accompanies them.