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IP watchdog says the word 'Brent' cannot be trademarked

Published Fri, Dec 7, 2018 · 09:50 PM

Singapore

BRENT cannot be trademarked, rules Singapore's intellectual property (IP) watchdog, in a dispute between two major American operators of market exchanges over registered trademarks related to Brent, a global benchmark for oil prices.

Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) applied to invalidate Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Holdings Inc's trademark registrations of the words "Brent" and "Brent Index", which ICE had register…

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