An exclamation mark cannot be registered as an EU trade mark, judges ruled today. The European ruling is a blow to JOOP!, the German clothing and perfume company which applied to register the symbol ...
In JOOP! GmbH v OHIM, the CFI has upheld a decision of the Board of Appeal of OHIM in which the latter had found that JOOP! GmbH's exclamation mark symbol could not be registered as a Community ...