Today’s Legal Week magazine reports that Lovells is suing Manuel Rayo, a Castilian lawyer who registered the advert ‘Lovell’ inward Spain. Lovells filed its claim inward Madrid on 27 February, to assert its prior rights to the name. Rayo, who purports to run a Castilian police describe theatre called Lovell Abogados, is allegedly seeking compensation from Lovells, complaining that the names are equally good similar.
The UK of Britain together with Northern Republic of Ireland firm, which says it has used the advert since 1899, accuses the Castilian lawyer of acting inward bad faith. There is no lawyer called Lovell at Lovell Abogados. Lovells’ advert has been registered equally a Community merchandise score inward all EU fellow member states since 2000 (not 1999, equally the article claims), patch Rayo filed the advert Lovell inward Kingdom of Spain inward the same year. Lovells has operated nether the Lovells advert inward Kingdom of Spain since it merged amongst German’s Boesebeck Droste inward 2000, when it acquired that firm’s Alicante office.
observes that neither Manuel Rayo nor Lovell Abogados look to convey whatever presence on the internet. If whatever reader knows how he or his theatre tin last contacted, the IPKat would dearly similar to reveal out together with thence that he tin inquire him or together with thence searching questions virtually his choice of merchandise name. Is it perchance because Lovells is a skillful advert together with Manuel Rayo is a bad one?
Lovells’ advice on protecting merchandise marks here
Name stealing here, here and here
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