"You may recall a workshop I gave at the MARQUES annual meeting in Brighton, using genuine and lookalike products to try to demonstrate the importance of an overall approach to filing Community trade marks and registered Community designs [This Kat well remembers the workshop: it was brilliant. If he hadn't known all the answers to the workshop problems beforehand, he thinks he might have got one or two of them wrong ...]. You kindly wrote about it for JIPLP [whose publisher Oxford University Press kindly made this piece available to non-subscribers here].
In preparation for the INTA Roundtable inAmsterdam this Thursday, 14 March 2013, I sent the box of shampoos, beverages, handwash etc (collected over a period of 10 years) to our Amsterdam office, together with a short letter explaining that the items were for legal training, and that were all genuine.
Royal Mail in its wisdom has seized and destroyed the entire box of product. They say that the P&G FEBREZE and Reckitt Benckiser AIRWICK sprayers are "dangerous goods".
Sorry? They
should be!
Do please help David if you can. David's collection of look-alikes was not only impressive but had huge didactic value. If you can help, please email David at david.stone@simmons-simmons.com
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