{"id":38007,"date":"2023-06-29T13:32:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T13:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sedin.ch\/?p=38007"},"modified":"2023-06-29T13:39:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T13:39:19","slug":"38007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sedin.ch\/en\/ressources\/actualites\/38007\/","title":{"rendered":"New practice on the distinctiveness of event marks in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ui-provider gl b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">As of July 1, 2023, the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property will change its practice for examining the distinctive character of trademarks consisting of a place name + year or an event name + year (event trademarks). From now on, the principle is that such word marks without additional distinctive elements will be refused for all goods and services, as they are considered to be in the public domain due to their commonplace nature. This new practice will apply to all procedures in progress from July 1st. The office has adapted its practice following the Federal Court ruling of April 6, 2022 (more details in our previous news <a class=\"fui-Link ___1idfs5o f3rmtva f1ewtqcl fyind8e f1k6fduh f1w7gpdv fk6fouc fjoy568 figsok6 f1hu3pq6 f11qmguv f19f4twv f1tyq0we f1g0x7ka fhxju0i f1qch9an f1cnd47f fqv5qza f1vmzxwi f1o700av f13mvf36 f1cmlufx f9n3di6 f1ids18y f1tx3yz7 f1deo86v f1eh06m1 f1iescvh ftqa4ok f2hkw1w fhgqx19 f1olyrje f1p93eir f1h8hb77 f1x7u7e9 f10aw75t fsle3fq f17ae5zn\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sedin.ch\/ressources\/actualites\/marques-qatar-2022-et-world-cup-2022-annulees-en-suisse\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sedin.ch\/ressources\/actualites\/marques-qatar-2022-et-world-cup-2022-annulees-en-suisse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Lien https:\/\/www.sedin.ch\/ressources\/actualites\/marques-qatar-2022-et-world-cup-2022-annulees-en-suisse\/\">https:\/\/www.sedin.ch\/ressources\/actualites\/marques-qatar-2022-et-world-cup-2022-annulees-en-suisse\/<\/a> ). Imagination and uniqueness in the design of event brands are more important than ever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Isabelle Bruder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of July 1, 2023, the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property will change its practice for examining the distinctive character of trademarks consisting of a place name + year or an event name + year (event trademarks). From now on, the principle is that such word marks without additional distinctive elements will be refused &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sedin.ch\/en\/ressources\/actualites\/38007\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New practice on the distinctiveness of event marks in Switzerland<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sedin-en-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sedin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sedin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sedin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sedin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sedin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sedin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38008,"href":"https:\/\/www.sedin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38007\/revisions\/38008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sedin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sedin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sedin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sedin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}