ELLOS CASE
April 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has ruled that a Spanish clothing, footwear and headgear company should have secured European trade mark rights to the word 'Ellos,' regarding a mail order service, though it should not use the brand-name for their products. It heard an appeal by Ellos AB against a ruling from the EU Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs). Judges agreed with the office that 'Ellos' was too close to the generic term menswear to be an exclusive trademark; it is the third person plural pronoun in ...
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