EUIPO APPLE and OPPLE are visually and aurally smilar at least to an average degree – 4
The specific reputation of the earlier mark – including qualitative aspects, such as a particular image (luxury, lifesty...
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EUIPO APPLE and OPPLE are visually and aurally smilar at least to an average degree – 3
Leading case-law consistently recognises the importance of the central parts and endings of ‘relatively short’ signs. Re...
EUIPO APPLE and OPPLE are visually and aurally smilar at least to an average degree – 2
The Opposition Division applied the relevant legal standard applicable to short marks (typically reserved for two/three ...
EUIPO APPLE and OPPLE are visually and aurally smilar at least to an average degree – 1
Indeed, according to settled case-law, where a figurative mark containing verbal elements is compared visually to a word...
EUIPO FRUIT CREATIONS and COCA-COLA CREATIONS have only very few visual and few phonetic similarities
The greater or lesser degree of distinctiveness of the constituent elements of the signs at issue which are common to th...
EUIPO What you see is what you get
For consumers who perceive the contested sign as having five vertical parallel stripes, not only is the number of stripe...
USPTO TTAB Rejects Flimsy Consent Agreement – 4
The Consent Agreement, which was executed on June 1, 2023, does not indicate the period of time of such simultaneous use...
USPTO TTAB Rejects Flimsy Consent Agreement – 2
Although the Consent Agreement shows that market participants Registrant and Applicant have affirmatively agreed that Ap...
USPTO Is “1849 BOURBON” for Distilled Spirits Confusable With “1849” for Wine?
While the addition of the disclaimed BOURBON may be a point of difference in Applicant’s proposed mark in sound when ful...
EUIPO The term ‘CIGALES’ independently evokes the PDO
When consumers encounter the sign applied for, the term ‘CIGALES’ does not go unnoticed. Although there is no likelihood...