{"id":146141,"date":"2018-04-26T09:50:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T09:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.soulcentralmagazine.com\/messi-scores-in-trademark-tussle-in-eu-court\/"},"modified":"2018-04-26T09:50:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T09:50:07","slug":"messi-scores-in-trademark-tussle-in-eu-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soulcentralmagazine.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/26\/messi-scores-in-trademark-tussle-in-eu-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi scores in trademark tussle in EU court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/>BRUSSELS (Reuters) &#8211; Argentine soccer player Lionel Messi may register his name as a trademark for sports equipment and clothing, the EU&#8217;s second highest court said, as he was famous enough to overcome phonetic similarities with Spanish bicycle clothing brand Massi.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/UKSportsNews?a=aMaNgODhbXs:LeEFEu_USJM:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/UKSportsNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/UKSportsNews?a=aMaNgODhbXs:LeEFEu_USJM:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/UKSportsNews?i=aMaNgODhbXs:LeEFEu_USJM:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/UKSportsNews?a=aMaNgODhbXs:LeEFEu_USJM:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/UKSportsNews?i=aMaNgODhbXs:LeEFEu_USJM:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKSportsNews\/~4\/aMaNgODhbXs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKSportsNews\/~3\/aMaNgODhbXs\/messi-scores-in-trademark-tussle-in-eu-court-idUKKBN1HX12P\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] BRUSSELS (Reuters) &#8211; Argentine soccer player Lionel Messi may register his name as a trademark for sports equipment and clothing, the EU&#8217;s second highest court said, as he was famous enough to overcome phonetic similarities with Spanish bicycle clothing brand Massi. [ad_2] Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_review":[],"enable_review":"","type":"","name":"","summary":"","brand":"","sku":"","good":[],"bad":[],"score_override":"","override_value":"","rating":[],"price":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-post","category-sports-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulcentralmagazine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulcentralmagazine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulcentralmagazine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulcentralmagazine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulcentralmagazine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soulcentralmagazine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulcentralmagazine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulcentralmagazine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulcentralmagazine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}