Invalidity · first instance · 2021-04-22
000112522
Contested design: 007706304-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is rejected, and the applicant must bear the holder's costs fixed at EUR 400.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity of registered Community design No 77063040001 is rejected. 2. The applicant bears the holder’s costs, fixed at EUR 400.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs of €400
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Containerships - Cma Cgm Gmbhvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Chilehaus A, Fischertwiete 2, 20095 Hamburg, Germany
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Erfolg s.r.o.via PDF extraction
SK
Hlavná 686/114, 077 01 Kráľovský Chlmec, Slovakia
Represented by
Róbert Porubčan
Prior art cited (1)
figurative trade mark CONTAINERSHIPS
European Union trade mark No 18 036 558 · EUIPO · disclosed 2019-08-07
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant relied on EU trade mark No 18 036 558 and argued the contested logo was similar, used for identical goods and services, and filed after the parties' business relationship ended.
- ›The holder argued both signs were weak schematic geometric depictions of a loaded intermodal container and that the invalidity request should therefore be rejected.
- ›The Division treated the goods and services as identical but found only below-average visual similarity, no conceptual similarity, and very low inherent distinctiveness of the earlier mark.
- ›Because the differences between the signs outweighed the limited common red square element, the Division found no likelihood of confusion and rejected the application.
Deciding panel
- MemberMichele M. BENEDETTI - ALOISI
- MemberEnrico D’ERRICO
- MemberLudmila CELISOVA
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
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| esespañol (es) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| frfrançais (fr) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| ititaliano (it) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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