World IP Review bericht: "France’s IP office has rejected 50 trademark applications for ‘Je suis Charlie’ since the terrorist attacks that shook the country. The National Institute of Industrial Property rejected the applications due the term’s wide use by the “community”, it said.
[...] Yesterday, WIPR reported that a trademark for the term had been filed at the Benelux Office for Intellectual Property, which administers trademarks and designs for Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. According to France’s IP office, it has rejected the 50 applications because “they do not meet the criterion of distinctive character. This slogan cannot be picked up by an economic actor because of its wide use by the community”.
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