Friday, May 27 2022   \  Published by Wolters Kluwer.

Denmark: Use of a family name as trademark was not allowed due to prior registered trademarks

Denmark: Use of a family name as trademark was not allowed due to prior registered trademarks

On 4 March 2021, the Danish Maritime and Commercial High Court (the Court) issued a decision between Mads Heindrof Jewellery (Mads Heindorf) and the company Heindorf Diamonds. 

The dispute regarded the jeweler Mads Heindorf's trademark for the word "Heindorf", which was asserted infringement by Heindorf Diamonds' use of the name "Heindorf Diamonds" in relation to sale and marketing of jewelery in Denmark and Europe. Read more

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