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Rechtbank van Koophandel te Antwerpen, 5 april 2007, Masterfoods Veghel BV en Masterfoods SA tegen Nestlé Belgilux SA. (met dank aan Tanguy de Haan, NautaDutilh Brussel).

Nestlé’s KitKat balletjesverpakking maakt geen inbreuk op Mars’ Maltesers balletjesmerken. Rood is gebruikelijk voor melkchocoladeproducten, ‘zwevende producten’ zijn ook niet ongebruikelijk en de merken Maltesers en KitKat zijn bekende merken, waardoor er geen verwarringsgevaar is.

Lees de uitspraak hier.

GvEA,18 April 2007, gevoegde zaken T-333/04 en  T-334/04. House of Donuts International tegen OHIM / Panrico SA.(nog geen Nederlandse versie beschikbaar).

Opposition proceedings. Applications for Community figurative marks ‘House of donuts’, earlier national word marks ‘DONUT’ and earlier figurative marks ‘donuts’.

(53) Accordingly, account being taken of the degree of familiarity of the Spanish public with the English language, which is generally held to be low, the applicant fails to establish that the assessment undertaken by the Board of Appeal on the basis of the evidence available to it was incorrect, in so far as the word ‘donuts’ in the earlier marks was acknowledged to have a certain distinctiveness. .

(59) It follows from the foregoing that the Board of Appeal was entitled to find that, having regard to the fact that the goods and services at issue are identical, there is a likelihood of confusion on the part of the average Spanish consumer, in terms of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 40/94, between the two Community trade marks applied for, on the one hand, and the earlier marks of Panrico, on the other.

Lees het arrest hier.