The Swedish Cross-protection of Company Names and Trademarks Revisited

In my dissertation Företagsnamnet som varukännetecken. En rättsvetenskaplig studie av det korsvisa skyddet. (Eng. The company name as a trade sign. A study of the Swedish law of cross-protection), completed in 20221, I set out to offer the first, to my knowledge, comprehensive study of the Swedish legal concept of cross-protection between company names and trade marks, i.e. signs used in trade. One doctoral dissertation had been written on the subject of names and company names before mine, by Gösta Eberstein in 1909, long before the adoption in 1974 of the predecessor of today’s Company Names Act, which was adopted in 2019.