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TUESDAY, 27 JANUARY 2015
Greek TM Office: Consistency and "CARE"

The English word "CARE" is known to and understood by Greek consumers of Class 3 and 5 products. This has been the, correct in this blogger's view, position of the Greek TM Office when addressing absolute or relative grounds of refusal issues for trademark applications incorporating the word. Under this prism, marks such as the one below for classic Class 5 and 10 products have been rejected.

 

 

 

In other circumstances, the Greek TM Office seemed less stict (and perhaps less consistent), probably thinking that rather trivila device elements, or greek words in latin characters (hygeia=health) will do the distincitveness trick.

  

However, for word marks, there appeared to be no compromise. So "DIABETES CARE DIAGNOSTICS" was rejected in Class 10. Again this looks correct and, again, a recent example to the contrary:CAREΑΛΟΙΦΗ (=care ointment) was accepted for "non pharmaceutical ointments" in Class 3. This blogger sees nothing unusual in the presentation of this word mark and, no offense to its owner, is a bit puzzled by its acceptance. Then again, he may just over-care about consistency. 

Posted by: Nikos Prentoulis @ 21.09
Tags: Greece, trademark office, absolute grounds, care, consistency, equality,
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