Mr.Atanas Kostov - trademark attorney in Bulgaria. The book "Trademarks and Copyrights on the Internet".

This unusual on prima facie and interesting book presents the problems of intellectual property and its protection on the Internet. It examines the issues and offers expert solutions to issues related to copyright, trademarks, domains, and other business identifiers that are used on the web. 

The book reviews the legal framework and analyzes the accumulated case law both in Bulgaria and in the Court of Justice of the European Union. 

The author of the book – Mr.Atanas Kostov, has the reputation of one of the best specialists in this modern field of law in Bulgaria. 

Target Audience: Publishing is necessary and useful for anyone who offers and uses information on the Internet in one way or another. It will be a good consultant and assistant to practitioners, intellectual property representatives, IT specialists, businessmen, artists and creative associations, lecturers and students. 

A Bulgarian woman has applied for a trademark similar to Hell's kitchen!

An interesting fact from reality is that on 15.02.2024 Mrs. Natalia Kartalova applied to the Bulgarian Patent Office for the national figurative mark "NASHA KUHNYA" with entry No. 2024172522 in three classes according to the Nice classification, one of which is also class 43: restaurant activity.

The figurative element of the mark in question is similar to a high degree to the European, well-known trademark HELL'S KITCHEN, which is the intellectual property of the English production company "ITV Studios Limited", realizing the famous television show under this brand worldwide, on the basis of a franchise marketing policy.

How to sell or license your patent, trademark, design, domain or artwork - Inventerhub.com.

The site www.inventerhub.com is a new and modern electronic tool that focuses on the marketing and presentation of already existing intellectual property objects. The site is focused on the licensing and sale of trademarks, industrial designs, patents and artworks. At this site you can register your copyright as well and to provide your artwork for licensing, you can search for a producer or investor in your artistic project. At www.inveterhub.com every one can sell also his domain, as well to start arbitration proceedings between trademark and domain name before WIPO.

Trademark registration in European Union. Trademark attorney in EUIPO.

A European Union Trade Mark (EUTM) is any trademark which is pending registration or has been registered in the European Union as a whole (rather than on a national level within the EU).

The EUTM system creates a unified trademark registration system in Europe, whereby one registration provides protection in all 28 member states of the EU. The EUTM system is unitary in character. Thus, an objection against an EUTM application in any member state can defeat the entire application, an EUTM registration is enforceable in all member states.

The EUTM system is administered by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), which is located in Alicante, Spain (see also trade mark law of the European Union).

The Community trademark gives its proprietor a uniform right applicable in all 28 Member States of the European Union on the strength of a single procedure which simplifies trademark policies at European level. It fulfils the three essential functions of a trademark at European level: it identifies the origin of goods and services, guarantees consistent quality through evidence of the company's commitment to the consumer, and is a form of communication, a basis for publicity and advertising.

Three-dimensional trademark or industrial design?

The theory and practice of patent law overlap with the view that the doctrinal and factual three-dimensional mark and design actually achieve the same legal result - the defense of the image of an object. However, the differences in the legal effects of the registration of the two objects of intellectual property are significant and should be explored in depth, with the idea to properly structure a strategic decision, on the most adequate means of defense for dealing with in a particular case. From this point of view, I find this topic particularly interesting because it is the basis for solving legal issues of a theoretical and practical nature that concern the correct registration of a product's vision, depending on several important criteria: 

- how much it has been used and has become commercially recognizable prior to the date of its filing as an industrial property;

 - how many images should the protection cover;

 - target time as the speed of the registration;

 - what is the duration of registration required by the applicant; 

- should the pre-selected remedy be in line with any possible future legal disputes that would have been sorted out when there is an improperly chosen intellectual property subject to the application or registration.

Why is the court practice concerning disputes between domains and trademarks in Bulgaria illegal?

1. Introduction :

I would like to start this presentation by noting the objective fact of reality that the largest company in the world (as I now), whose business is multi-billion - "AMAZON", is based online. Its shares are traded on the stock exchange in New York, London and Hong Kong. Behind the website AMAZON.com is the corporation "Amazon.com" Inc. This company also owns the American national, international (registered under the Madrid Agreement and its protocol) and European trademarks AMAZON.com . The trademark in question is definitely a domain! Its shares, according to my information (I admit it is incomplete), are not traded on the Sofia(Bulgarian) stock exchange, nor are cases related to it heard in the Sofia courts, but it is still the most expensive trademark in the world representing a domain. I share these facts because of the particularly controversial view of the Bulgarian court of the 21st century (object of research in this article) that "the domain cannot and is not a trademark" and that "the bad faith registration of a domain is not a commercial activity". Sounds absurd to you? For me as well.