November 20, 2018
Subject Drinkopoly vs Monopoly case, Boards of Appeal at EUIPO
As a representative of the company “Kreativni događaji Ltd.” from Zagreb, the holder of the EUTM trademark “DRINKOPOLY”, Andrej Matijević attended the oral hearing in the procedure of annulment of the trademark “MONOPOLY”, holder of Hasbro Inc. US before the EUIPO Boards of Appeal The hearing was held with aim that the Boards of Appeal at EUIPO determine motives behind the practice of repetitive trademark registration by Hasbro Inc. This was one of a very few oral hearings before the EUIPO in the 20 years of existence of the Boards of Appeal.