Re: Panerai lawsuit
Posted: January 16th, 2021, 5:57 am
Marina Militare means Military Navy its not something you can register.Inside Italy yes you need the navy authorization like fashion items or watches being made not only with the name but Italian Navy logo.If you dont use the Italian Navy logo the world alone is generic.It reminds with a case files against an Italian Maker who made sunglasses under the label Sting by Sting the singer.
The courts said that sting is not something you can patent or register since its a common English world .Same happened with Ford with the Focus against the Focus Magazine and so on.
Regarding the case i thing only the crown guard is protected by Panearai because when the panerai family sold the company Richmond re-registered the patented .Rolex patend the osyster case long time ago so they are out of coverage,thast why so many legal clones.
Well you can reserve a case shape but you have to do before it hits the market and it wont last more then some years.I dont recall panerai registering any case with patents, also you will be surprised that many parts of watch designs dont belong to a firm but to the designer contracted to do the shape! Gerald Genta for example has most patends for all the nautilus wacthes for Patek etc.
In this case though i dont see any violation and dont understand how it stood in court,anyway big firms can afford to hire all $$$ lawfirms and due as the like but then again so was Ford and lost the Case!!
The courts said that sting is not something you can patent or register since its a common English world .Same happened with Ford with the Focus against the Focus Magazine and so on.
Regarding the case i thing only the crown guard is protected by Panearai because when the panerai family sold the company Richmond re-registered the patented .Rolex patend the osyster case long time ago so they are out of coverage,thast why so many legal clones.
Well you can reserve a case shape but you have to do before it hits the market and it wont last more then some years.I dont recall panerai registering any case with patents, also you will be surprised that many parts of watch designs dont belong to a firm but to the designer contracted to do the shape! Gerald Genta for example has most patends for all the nautilus wacthes for Patek etc.
In this case though i dont see any violation and dont understand how it stood in court,anyway big firms can afford to hire all $$$ lawfirms and due as the like but then again so was Ford and lost the Case!!






