General Court denies protection for OMV abstract colour combination trade mark – despite INTA’s and MARQUES’ intervention

The protection of abstract colour trade marks is notoriously difficult to attain in the EU. Even statements in interventions from heavyweights such as INTA and MARQUES in the OMV colour case (IPKat here) did not convince the General Court to reconsider the case law in a recent judgment concerning an abstract colour combination mark (case T-38/24). Background On 27 January 2021, the