Showing posts with label Swedish Patent and Registration Office. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Swedish Patent and Registration Office. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 5, 2017

Swedish Neo-Nazis Frozen Out In Trademark Fight; NPR, July 5, 2017

Scott Neuman, NPR: Swedish Neo-Nazis Frozen Out In Trademark Fight

"A German manufacturer of deep freezers has won a trademark battle with Swedish neo-Nazis over the group's name — which the company says is too easily confused with its own.

The extremist group, known as the Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM), or "Nordfront" for short, is too similar to Nordfrost, the firm that claims to be the world's sixth-largest maker of deep freezers."