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German Federal Supreme Court: no exclusive rights in the descriptive word Kinder
Boult Wade Tennant
"Kinder II" and "Kinderzeit", German Federal Supreme Court decisions I ZR 6/05 and I ZR 94/04, 20 September 2007
The German Federal Supreme Court has ruled in two cases that combined word-and-device mark registrations for Kinder do not provide any exclusive rights in the descriptive word Kinder, meaning children in German.
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