Trade Mark Case-law from Luxembourg

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1 Trade Mark Case-law from Luxembourg June 08 June 09 ECTA 28th Annual Conference, Vilnius Verena von Bomhard, Alicante (Alicante) Limited & Cia.

2 Dilution (Alicante) Limited & Cia.

3 ECJ of 27 Nov 2008 Intel Corporation Inc. v CPM United Kingdom Ltd vs. INTELMARK for marketing services in Class 35 "change in the economic behaviour of the consumer"

4 ECJ of 18 Jun L'Oréal v Bellure Taking unfair advantage of the distinctive character/repute of a mark consists in riding on the coattails of the mark to benefit from its power of attraction, reputation and the prestige exploiting, without paying any financial compensation, the marketing effort expended by the proprietor of the mark in order to create and maintain the mark s image.

5 ECJ of 12 Mar 2009 Antartica ti Srl (NASDAQ) NASDAQ vs. for goods related to sport activities in classes 9, 12, 14, 25 and 28

6 ECJ of 17 July 2008 L&D SA (fir tree) vs. for identical similar goods in classes 3 and 5

7 CFI of 16 April 2008 CITIBANK The Citi never sleeps CITICARD CITIGOLD CITIPHONE CITIBUSINESS etc. vs. for customs agency services in class 36

8 CFI of 25 Mar 2009 and 19 Jun 2008 SPA vs. SPALINE for inter alia soaps, and beauty products in class 3 SPA vs. MINERAL SPA for inter alia perfumeries, essential oils and beauty care preparations in class 3

9 Opinion AG Sharpston of 30 April 2009 in Case PAGO

10 ECJ of 14 Sep 1999 General Motors

11 Principle of equality in TM procedures? (Alicante) Limited & Cia.

12 ECJ Order of 12 February 2009 Schwabenpost, Volks.Handy "Adenauer principle": "Wat kümmert mich ming Jeschwätz von jestern?" (what do I care about my gibberish i of yesterday?)

13 Genuine Use (Alicante) Limited & Cia.

14 ECJ of 9 Dec 2008 Verein Radetzky-Orden d

15 ECJ of 15 Jan 2009 Silberquelle ll (Wellness) Silberquelle GmbH v Maselli-Strickmode GmbH

16 Court of First Instance (Alicante) Limited & Cia.

17 Languages in which h actions were filed English 65 German 18 Spanish 7 Italian 5 French 1 Hungarian 1 Czech 1 Dutch 1 Greek English German Spanish Italian French Hungarian Czech Dutch Greek

18 CFI Absolute Grounds (Alicante) Limited & Cia.

19 Absolute Grounds Statistics ti ti judgments 6 terminated without decision 2 manifestly unfounded or inadmissible 37 judgments /orders fully confirming BoA In 4 cases BoA partially upheld 10 actions fully successful (19.6%) Judgments/orders fully confirming OHIM/BoA BoA partially upheld Fully successful actions

20 Absolute Grounds Statistics ti ti 2009 (Jan-Mar) 7 judgments fully confirming BoA 1 order No successful action Judgments/orders fully confirming OHIM/BoA BoA partially upheld Fully successful action

21 Two decisions on when distinctiveness must be present for a CTM to be valid ECJ, C 542/07 P PURE DIGITAL: (before) filing date CFI, T189/06 - FLUGBÖRSE: (only at) filing date pending: ECJ C-553/08 P MANPOWER

22 CFI of 9 July 2008 MOZART

23 CFI of 9 July 2008 "E" Goods in classes 5, 10, 25 No a priori rejection of distinctiveness of a single letter

24 CFI Relative Grounds (Alicante) Limited & Cia.

25 Relative Grounds Statistics ti ti judgments 34 terminated without decision 9 manifestly unfounded or inadmissible 69 judgments/orders fully confirming BoA In 1 case BoA partially upheld 15 actions fully successful (17,6%) Judgments/orders fully confirming OHIM/BoA BoA partially upheld Fully successful actions

26 Relative Grounds Statistics ti ti 2009 (Jan-Mar) 12 judgments 3 terminated without decision 1 inadmissible 11 judgments/ orders fully confirming BoA 2 actions fully successful (15%) Judgments/orders fully confirming OHIM/BoA BoA partially upheld Fully successful actions

27 Weak marks - loc (+) (Alicante) Limited & Cia.

28 CFI of 11 Jun 2009 InvestHedge

29 CFI of 11 Feb 2009 Life Science

30 CFI of 12 Nov 2008 Limoncello II LIMONCHELO vs.

31 CFI of 12 Nov 2008 ECOBLUE BLUE vs. ECOBLUE

32 CFI of 25 June ZIPCAR CICAR vs. ZIPCAR

33 Weak marks - loc (-) (Alicante) Limited & Cia.

34 CFI of 27 Nov conf ECJ 11 Dec 2008 GATEWAY vs. ACTIVY Media Gateway

35 CFI of 25 June L'Altra Moda

36 CFI of 7 May 2009 CK CREACIONES vs. CK CREACIONES KENNYA

37 CFI of 12 February 2009 PIAZZA del SOLE PIAZZA PIAZZA D'ORO vs.

38 Similarity of goods and services (Alicante) Limited & Cia.

39 CFI of 12 Nov 2008 vs. Q2WEB software similar to telecommunication services

40 CFI of 22 Jan 2009 EASYHOTEL vs. easyhotel Software not similar to computerised hotel reservation and booking services

41 CFI of 29 April 2009 MONTEBELLO vs. agricultural rum not similar to wines

42 CFI of 18 June 2008 MEZZO and MEZZOMIX vs. "little similarity" between wines and beers

43 CFI of 4 Nov 2008 COYOTE UGLY vs. beers and bar and lounge services similar

44 Similarity of signs earlier mark fully reproduced by junior mark (Alicante) Limited & Cia.

45 CFI of 10 Dec 2008 vs. phonetically similar

46 CFI of 26 June 2008 POLAR vs. dissimilar