Wednesday 24th January 2024
Judgment in Case T-562/22 Noah Clothing / EUIPO – Noah (NOAH)
(Intellectual, Industrial and Commercial Property – Trade marks)
In 2008, Mr Yannick Noah, a former French tennis player, registered the following figurative sign with the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) as a European Union trademark:
This registration concerned, in particular, leather and imitation leather goods, clothing – including polo shirts and sweaters – as well as games and toys.
In 2019, Noah Clothing LLC, a New York-based company that markets clothing, filed an application for revocation of this trademark with the EUIPO, on the grounds that it had not been put to genuine use in the European Union for an uninterrupted period of five years for all the goods concerned.
In July 2022, the EUIPO declared the revocation of the contested trademark for all the goods concerned, with the exception of “polo shirts” and “sweaters”.
Noah Clothing LLC asks the Court of the European Union to annul the EUIPO’s decision insofar as it did not also declare the revocation of the contested mark for “polo shirts” and “sweaters”.
Mittwoch, 24. Januar 2024
Urteil des Gerichts in der Rechtssache T‑562/22 Noah Clothing / EUIPO – Noah (NOAH)
Markenstreit um „NOAH“
2007 meldete Yannick Noah beim Amt der Europäischen Union für geistiges Eigentum (EUIPO) ein mehrfarbiges Bildzeichen mit dem Buchstaben Y und dem Schriftzug „NOAH“ als Unionsmarke an. Diese Unionsmarke wurde für Waren wie Leder und Lederimitationen, Bekleidungsstücke sowie Spiele und Spielzeug eingetragen.
2019 beantragte das amerikanische Modeunternehmen NOAH Clothing beim EUIPO, die Marke für verfallen zu erklären. Das EUIPO gab diesem Antrag weitgehend statt, mit Ausnahme von „Polo shirts“ und „sweaters“; für diese Waren blieb die Marke eingetragen (siehe Entscheidung R 504/2021-1 der Ersten Beschwerdekammer des EUIPO vom 12. Juli 2022).
Noah Clothing hat diese Entscheidung, soweit damit ihr Antrag abgelehnt wurde, vor dem Gericht der EU angefochten, das heute sein Urteil verkündet.
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