When is a trademark owner in bad faith when filing his trademark repeatedly? The General Court ruled on this issue in the case of Hasbro v. EUIPO. Hasbro had the trademark Monopoly registered several times. In 2019, EUIPO declared the mark partially invalid (for part of the goods and services), alleging that Hasbro had acted in bad faith when applying to register the mark. Hasbro appealed this decision, but the Board of Appeal and recently the General Court rejected it.
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