Can we sing Happy Birthday?

Maybe you read or heard these last couple of weeks that lyrics from the Happy Birthday song were in the public domain. Well, that is not entirely true. Actually what said US District Judge George H. King on 22 September 2015 is that Warner/Chappell Music Inc. could...

A shape, a trademark… Have a Kit Kat!

Nestlé sought to register as a three-dimensional trademark the shape of the KIT KAT chocolate-coated biscuits, used since 1935 in the UK.   Cadbury opposed to this registration, and the examiner upheld the opposition, estimating that (i) this sign was devoid of...