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IP Media Insights: September-October 2025

21 November 2025
Our experts in France explore the latest news of interest in the area of IP Media.

In this issue

  • The Court of Cassation clarifies the starting point of the prescription for music counterfeiting
  • EUIPO cancellation of OpenAI's "GPT" word mark for artificial intelligence software and services
  • Refusal by the General Court of the European Union of the international registration of the trademark "1926" by watchmaker TUDOR on the grounds of descriptiveness.
  • The General Court of the European Union has handed down an important decision on sound marks 
  • The use of "by" followed by the company name is not sufficient to differentiate it from the earlier well-known trademark. 
  • New episode in the Louboutin case before the Court of Cassation, which reiterates that counterfeiting is first and foremost a criminal offence
  • The Paris Judicial Court rules on the balance between the transfer of rights to a name and the moral right to sign one's creations   
  • Interesting ruling on the relationship between summary proceedings and copyright protection
  • The General Court of the European Union clarifies the concept of legitimate interest in trademark law
  • Recent EUIPO decision illustrating the common phenomenon of "disemvowelling"
  • Shein and its communications agency condemned by the Advertising Ethics Jury
  • The Paris Court of Justice ruled that the film access service via the TGV Portal is not subject to media chronology 
  • The Paris Court of Appeal requires X (formerly Twitter) to be fully transparent with the press

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