This terminated nearly four years of trademark dispute, where patent
agency Käosaar & Co successfully represented, in the final stage jointly
with the Law Firm Glimstedt, the dairy producer Piimandusühistu E-Piim, who had filed an
application to the Estonian Patent Office on 08 November 2007 to register the
figurative trademark “Vene juust”.On 04 February 2009, the Patent
Office made a decision to register the trademark, which was contested by the
owner of the earlier trademark “Vene juust + design”, Ago Teder, in the
Industrial Property Appeal Committee.The dispute mainly focused on
whether “Vene juust” indicated the type and characteristic features of the
cheese and whether this designation had become conventional language usage.This court
action deemed “Vene juust” to be a cheese type designation and, as a result,
other businesses are also allowed to manufacture and market goods designated
with the words “Vene juust”. |
