Invalidity appeal · Board of Appeal · 2023-12-15
R0912/2023-3
Contested design: 000757430-0004
Outcome
The appeal is dismissed, and the design holder must bear the invalidity applicant's costs and fees in the invalidity and appeal proceedings.
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1. Dismisses the appeal. 2. Orders the design holder to bear the costs and fees incurred by invalidity applicant in the invalidity and appeal proceedings.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
SC STAR FOODS EM SRLvia PDF extraction
Romania (RO)
Str. Drumul Taberei Baza de Producție SIAU, Jud Ilfov, Comuna Popești Leordeni, Romania
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
ETI GIDA SANAYI VE TICARET ANONIM SIRKETIvia PDF extraction
Türkiye (TR)
Organize Sanayi Bolgesi 11 Cadde Eskisehir, Turkey
Represented by
Adrian Căvescu
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The invalidity applicant relied on Romanian trade mark No 071100 KRAX and argued that the contested package design used a confusingly similar sign for snack goods.
- ›The design holder argued the signs were dissimilar, the earlier mark had weak distinctiveness, and the invalidity applicant had not established its earlier right convincingly.
- ›The Board found the earlier Romanian mark valid and renewed, held that the contested design reproduced the dominant KRAX or CRAX sign on identical or highly similar goods, and found likelihood of confusion under Romanian law.
- ›The appeal was dismissed and the invalidity decision was upheld.
Deciding panel
- ChairS. Stürmann
- RapporteurC. Negro
- MemberM. Bra
- RegistrarH. Dijkema
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
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| frFrench | human translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| deDeutsch (de) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| esespañol (es) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| ititaliano (it) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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