Top 10 legal updates for May

WTR Premium Updates, available only to subscribers, provide daily case law bulletins from across the globe. Heading up last month’s list of most-read updates was analysis of a recent Chinese TRAB decision involving various HERMES marks. The decision demonstrated the importance of establishing that there is a connection in the minds of consumers between a foreign name in Latin characters and its Chinese transliteration, as the scope of protection of one mark can be extended to another mark, and vice versa.