New episode from ‘Pasapalabra’ about the legal battle over the intellectual property of ‘El Rosco’. HE The EU General Court rejected the objections An action was brought by Good Services, a subsidiary of MC&F, challenging the decisions of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) canceling the registration of the ‘El Rosco’ trademark at the request of ITV, in consideration of Good Services. recorded “maliciously”.
In this decision, the General Court was of the opinion that Good Services requested the registration of ‘El Rosco’ even though it was a trademark. “that he does not create and does not express his interest in“And in a context where MC&F and ITV are competing for ownership of the final game.”
The decision also highlights that the MC&F subsidiary registered ‘El Rosco’ as its own brand after the Madrid Commercial Court No. 6 declared in a 2014 decision that: ‘El Rosco’ was one of the founding elements of the ‘Pasapalabra’ formatA format owned by ITV and could not be protected by intellectual property as part of it.
“This automatically had the effect of preventing ITV from using the ‘El Rosco’ brand, “even though he is the one who created it”Noting the European Union’s judicial body reaffirms that ‘El Rosco’ is a product of ITV, part of Pasapalabra, and adds that Good Service claims “appear to deviate from generally accepted principles of ethical conduct or fair practices in trade or business” in your life.”
A long court battle over its intellectual property
Thus, a new page is closed regarding the intellectual property rights of ‘Pasapalabra’ and ‘El Rosco’. Still It is not yet known whether the new decision of the EU General Court will create precedent or have any other impact. The case that both companies have in our country.
For example, the Barcelona Court in November 2022 It issued a non-final decision that can be appealed to the Supreme Court, forcing Atresmedia to stop broadcasting ‘El Rosco’. Following the acceptance of the objection submitted by the Dutch company MC&F Publishing Production and Distribution CV, it was decided to pay compensation in addition to non-pecuniary damages of 50,000 euros to Atresmedia on the grounds that the evidence in question violated intellectual property rights.
ITV appealed against this decision to the Spanish supreme court and until this decision is published there will be no changes to ‘Pasapalabra’ and in particular its final episode ‘El Rosco’, which will continue to be broadcast as normal. as before.
According to reports WorldIn its decision, the Barcelona Court concluded that the creators of ‘El Rosco’ were Reto Luigi Pianta and René Mauricio Loeb, who transferred the rights to MC&F. The court held that MC&F licensed the Italian company Einstein to include El Rosco in the ‘Passaparola’ competition in 1998.A second game, known as ‘The Alphabet Game’, was created based on the license granted by ITV to this production company.
The court decision was different from the court decision Commercial Court No. 8 ruled in favor of ITV and Atresmedia. At that time, the first court ruled that the Dutch company We could not prove the authorship of the above-mentioned television playAs reflected in the sentence compiled by El Confidencial.