Greece Wins Trademark Battle Against "Turkaegean"

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Greece successfully prevented the registration of the "Turkaegean" trademark, thwarting Turkey's effort to found the marque wrong the EU.

The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) cancelled the trademark application, primitively filed by Turkey's tourism promotion bureau successful 2021, aft Greece challenged it connected grounds of trademark infringement.

The Greek Ministry of Development and the Industrial Property Organization (OBI) led the charge, filing their situation successful February 2023. This triumph is being lauded successful Greece arsenic a beardown defence of the country's nationalist and economical interests, according to Development Minister Takis Theodorikakos. The OBI besides commended its team's dedicated enactment successful securing the cancellation.

Greece has successfully blocked Turkey's effort to registry the "Turkaegean" trademark successful the EU, with the EU Intellectual Property Office siding with Greece. This ineligible victory, led by Greece's Ministry of Development and the Industrial Property Organization, protects Greece's nationalist and economical interests and highlights the ongoing determination tensions.

The "Turkaegean" trademark was viewed arsenic a provocative determination by Turkey to assertion a marque individuality implicit a disputed region, further underscoring the existing tensions betwixt Greece and Turkey.

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