The European Union Intellectual Property Office found two logos in dispute were not similar enough to warrant Chanel’s opposition. Chinese social media users accused Chanel of deliberately playing the victim to earn sympathy. SCMP
The dispute was over an application filed by Huawei to the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) to register a trademark for a brand for computer hardware featuring two vertical interlocking semi-circles, similar to the iconic Chanel logo.
After examining the visual, phonetic, and conceptual aspects of the logos, the General Court of the European Union said found that, while they shared some similarities, their “visual differences are significant”, according to a press release issued on Wednesday.
Hasbro loses EU âMonopolyâ TM after bad faith finding
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Hasbro has had an EU trademark for the ‘Monopoly’ board game partially invalidated after the EU General Court found its filing strategy was designed to avoid proving genuine use.
In a judgment issued Wednesday, April 21, the court upheld an earlier decision from the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), which considered Hasbro to have acted in bad faith.
The ruling comes after a lawsuit filed by Croatian board game seller Kreativni DogaÄaji, which sought the invalidation of an EU ‘Monopoly’ trademark registered in 2011.
According to the court, Hasbro’s 2011 mark was identical with respect to certain goods and services as earlier ‘Monopoly’ trademarks. The purpose of refiling the mark was to avoid having to prove genuine use, the EUIPO ruled in 2019. Under EU law, trademarks granted by the EUIPO can be invalidated if the owner cannot prove genuine use five years
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From:english.eastday.com | 2021-04-23 19:27
French luxury brand Chanel has recently lost a trademark protection case with Huawei. This dispute began in 2017, when Huawei applied for registration protection with the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) for its computer hardware trademark, which includes two conjoined half-circles.
Chanel objected to this, saying that the trademark design was similar to its trademark registered in France, the iconic double C design. In 2019, the European Union Intellectual Property Office rejected Chanel’s objections, saying that the two trademarks were not similar.
Chanel subsequently filed another appeal in the EU General Court in Luxembourg. That court ruled that the visual differences between the two trademarks are very large. Chanel s trademark curve is more rounded and thicker, and the direction is horizontal, while the Huawei trademark is vertical. The court rejected Chanel s appeal in Wedne
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Chanel recently lost a trademark lawsuit against Huawei after the General Court of the European Union ruled that their logos bore no similarities. This comes nearly four years after the tussle first began in 2017 when Huawei applied to register for a mark with the European Union Intellectual Property Office in September for computer hardware. Months later in December, Chanel filed a notice of opposition to registration of the mark on the grounds that it bore similarities to its own earlier French marks registered for perfumes, cosmetics, costume jewellery, leather goods and clothes.
In November 2019, however, the European Union Intellectual Property Office rejected Chanel s application on the ground that the mark Huawei applied for was not similar to those two marks, the second mark having been relied on as having a reputation, and that there was no likelihood of confusion on the part of the relevant public.