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UK moving away from EU on trademark bad faith standards

By Nick Robertson ( May 1, 2025, 15:46 GMT | Insight) -- Recent UK court rulings have distinguished its case law from the European Union in defining what constitutes “bad faith” in trademark prosecution, practitioners said at a panel hosted by the American Bar Association yesterday.The UK is more open to arguments against trademark registrations based on bad faith conduct than its European Union counterparts, a panel of practitioners said yesterday at the American Bar Association’s intellectual property law section spring meeting near Washington, DC....

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