The court of Bologna declared the MST device trademark null and void on the grounds of likelihood of confusion and risk of association, both with regards to the well-known MS trademark, emphasizing that the graphic differences between these trademarks are not sufficient to avoid a strong impression of similarity which derives from the overlapping of the two letters “MS”. We publish the article written by Costanza Manavello and published on the English web-based legal forum "Lexology":
http://www.lexology.com/r.ashx?l=7HXGHHC
