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Two From The Cfi


The laid about of today's Court of First Instance's (CFI's) appeals from the OHIM Boards of Appeal
is Case T-34/04, Plus Warenhandelsgesellschaft mbH v OHIM, Joachim Bälz as well as Friedmar Hiller.
The applicant sought to register this sugariness picayune figurative sign for diverse goods inward Classes 3, 25, 28, 32, 33 as well as 34. The opponent objected, citing its before High German registration of the discussion score POWER for tobacco as well as smokers' accessories inward Class 34. The Opposition Division as well as the Board of Appeal refused the opposition on the solid set down that in that place was no likelihood of confusion: "the verbal chemical ingredient ‘Turkish’ of the sign sought as well as its figurative element, which consists of a lion’s head, could non move overlooked as well as that, fifty-fifty if the lion’s caput alluded to the persuasion of strength, it was non a straightforward transposition of that idea". The CFI dismissed the appeal.

Metso: inward take of a less descriptive score than PAPERLAB for ‘computer
equipment as well as mensuration installations for surveying as well as testing of paper’

The minute appeal was inward Case T-19/04 Metso Paper Automation Oy v OHIM. Metso applied to register the discussion score PAPERLAB for ‘computer equipment as well as mensuration installations for surveying as well as testing of paper’ inward Class 9. The examiner as well as the Board of Appeal persuasion this to move rather on the descriptive side as well as none also inherently distinctive either (though the application was remitted for consideration of whether PAPERLAB had acquired distinctiveness through use). Metso as well as thence appealed, unsuccessfully, to the CFI. As the courtroom said, at para.33:

"the Board of Appeal was correct inward its finding that the PAPERLAB score described inward English linguistic communication inward a uncomplicated as well as straightforward vogue the intended business office of the goods for which registration of the score was sought. The discussion sign PAPERLAB does non exercise an impression sufficiently removed from that produced yesteryear precisely joining the words ‘paper’ as well as ‘lab’. Moreover, the ‘paperlab’ sign could also move perceived every bit denoting i of the technical characteristics of the goods inward question, since this is a inquiry of reckoner equipment as well as mensuration installations which accept been designed to operate similar a existent mobile laboratory inward guild to obtain, on the spot, services normally performed inward a laboratory".
has no quarrel amongst either of these decisions.
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