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Bad news for WhatsApp as Norwegian Board of Appeal refuses to register logo

By AWA | Posted on November 23, 2020

With a reported total of more than 500 million users globally, many of us will have used or at least heard of WhatsApp. In a recent decision dated 24 September 2020, the Board of Appeal for Industrial Property Rights ruled against WhatsApp in its appeal against an earlier decision of the Norwegian Industrial Property Office...

Tags: distinctiveness, NIPO, Norway, trademarks, What's App

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