{"id":1146,"date":"2018-02-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/senaiplaw.com\/2018\/02\/06\/conflict-between-an-earlier-trademark-and-a-p-d-o-protected-designation-of-origin-it-is-for-the-national-court-to-assess-it\/"},"modified":"2019-03-29T09:19:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T09:19:12","slug":"conflict-between-an-earlier-trademark-and-a-p-d-o-protected-designation-of-origin-it-is-for-the-national-court-to-assess-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/senaiplaw.com\/en\/2018\/02\/06\/conflict-between-an-earlier-trademark-and-a-p-d-o-protected-designation-of-origin-it-is-for-the-national-court-to-assess-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Conflict between an earlier trademark and a P.D.O. (Protected Designation of Origin): it is for the National Court to assess it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By decision n. 21191 of 13 September 2017, the joint sections of the divisions of the Supreme Court has recognized the competence of the National Ordinary Court for the action taken by Azienda Agricola Salaparuta s.p.a. based on its registered trademark &#8216;Salaparuta&#8217; for the nullity of the homonymous P.D.O. conferred to a group of Sicilian wine producers with decree by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and measures by the EU Commission.The Supreme Court has qualified a P.D.O. as an &#8216;industrial property right&#8217; pursuant to art. 1 of the Italian IP Code. Consequently, except in the case in which it is challenged<br \/>\nthe administrative regularity of the measures for the grant, it has confirmed\u00a0the competence of the National Court\u00a0to assess the claim for nullity of a\u00a0P.D.O., consisting in a &#8216;claim having the\u00a0same content as the one fornullity of a trademark which is denied exclusivity,\u00a0it being directed tounderline the false, misleading and parasitic nature of a\u00a0P.D.O. that corresponds to an earlier trademark&#8217;.The Supreme Court has moreover pointed out that there\u00a0is a presumption of validity of the P.D.O. (granted by the domestic and EU\u00a0registration), but it is not binding in Courts. Furthermore it has confirmed\u00a0that the owner of an earlier domestic trademark can take action either before\u00a0the national Court or before the EU Court of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>The matter has therefore been referred again to\u00a0the Milan Court where the proceedings was originally lodged.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By decision n. 21191 of 13 September 2017, the joint sections of the divisions of the Supreme Court has recognized the competence of the National Ordinary Court for the action taken by Azienda Agricola Salaparuta s.p.a. based on its registered trademark &#8216;Salaparuta&#8217; for the nullity of the homonymous P.D.O. conferred to a group of Sicilian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[39,35,32],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Conflict between an earlier trademark and a P.D.O. 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