Laura Godfrin, attorney-at-law, deciphers the decision handed down by the Commercial Chamber of the French Cour de cassation on June 5, 2024, in the Oxford case.

🎒 In this case, the claimant based its action on its well-known trademark “Oxford”, offering the High Court an opportunity to clarify the conditions for applying the rule of acquiescence (forclusion par tolérance) — in particular, whether such a ground for inadmissibility can be raised against the owner of a well-known earlier trademark acting on the basis of former Article L. 713-5 of the French Intellectual Property Code.

📌 Full commentary available in the September 2024 edition of the journal Lamy Droit de l’immatériel (Lamy Liaisons – Groupe Karnov).