{"id":3002,"date":"2003-02-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-06T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ids.org.br\/novo-site\/en\/lack-of-rights-precludes-trademark-agreement\/"},"modified":"2003-02-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-06T02:00:00","slug":"lack-of-rights-precludes-trademark-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ids.org.br\/en\/lack-of-rights-precludes-trademark-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of Rights Precludes Trademark Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #505050\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">The Federal Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has held that an agreement between Natura Lta and L&#8217;Acqua di Fiori to settle their trademark dispute was not valid because Natura&#8217;s registration was, in fact, null and void (Case 95.02.19308-3). <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #505050\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Natura, owner of the UVA-B mark in relation to sun-block, filed an action before a civil court alleging that L&#8217;Acqua had infringed its trademark rights by manufacturing and distributing a similar product with a similar name. L&#8217;Acqua counterclaimed by filing an action to have Natura&#8217;s trademark registration cancelled on the grounds that &#8216;UV&#8217; (ultraviolet rays) is a technical term commonly used in relation to sun-block. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #505050\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Subsequently, Natura and L&#8217;Acqua settled their dispute, agreeing to withdraw both actions. The civil court concurred. However, the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), which was a co-defendant in the case, appealed.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #505050\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">The Federal Court of Appeals sided with the PTO, holding that there is an absolute prohibition against the registration of a technical term as a trademark. Natura&#8217;s registration of UVA-B was therefore null and void, and could not be the object of an agreement with L&#8217;Acqua.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has held that an agreement between Natura Lta and L&#8217;Acqua di Fiori to settle their trademark dispute was not valid because Natura&#8217;s registration was, in fact, null and void (Case 95.02.19308-3). Natura, owner of the UVA-B mark in relation to sun-block, filed an action before a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,106],"tags":[135,133,141,137],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ids.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ids.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ids.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ids.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ids.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ids.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ids.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ids.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ids.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}