In the April 2021 edition of Asian Legal Business, OLN has once again been awarded ‘ALB Employer of Choice,’ one of the best law firms to work for in Asia. This is the third consecutive year that OLN has succeeded in achieving this accomplishment, winning the award for a total of four years. The firm would like to thank our staff for the tremendous effort over the last year, disrupted by COVID-19, as well as in previous years, ensuring the firm is consistently ranked as an ALB Employer of Choice.
The ALB Employer of Choice 2021 survey was open to all employees, from managing partners to paralegals to non-legal staff. There were over 1800 respondents from eight Asian jurisdictions, and the winners were selected based on the number and quality of respondents. For more details, please read the Asian Legal Business report by clicking here.
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. However, this was initially declined for registration in Class 25 for “clothing” in China because of the word “FRANCE” within the trade mark. Ms Van Damme succeeded in the review by convincing the review adjudicator that the word “France” is generally perceived by consumers, in the context of her brand, as the name of a living person instead of referring to the country of France.
was initially declined for registration in Class 9 for “loudspeakers” in China because of the word “URAL” in the mark being associated with the
was initially declined registration in Class 4 for ‘fuels’ as the words ‘CAR’ and “DRIVER” seem closely associated with the products of “fuels” for automobiles but if we look at these words more carefully, they are not directly connected to the essential characteristics and functions of the goods. The Applicant succeeded in the review by convincing the review adjudicator that the mark as a whole is not directly descriptive of the goods sought to be registered and it is capable of functioning as a trade mark to indicate the source of origin of the goods.