Prejudiciële vragen over verwarringsgevaar bij merken deels bestaande uit individuele letters

Zaak C-20/14: BGW Marketing- & Management-Service. Prejudiciële vraag Bundespatentgericht (Duitsland).

Merkenrecht. "This is a request for a preliminary ruling from the German Patents Court specifically concerning the likelihood of the public's confusion in relation to the grant of a trade mark partly consisting of individual letters."

Prejudiciële vraag: "Concerning the interpretation of Article 4(1) (b) of the Trade Mark Directive. The Court asks whether, in the case of identical and similar goods and services, there may be taken to be a likelihood of confusion if a distinctive sequence of letters which dominates an earlier word/figurative trade mark in such a way that the sequence of letters is supplemented by a descriptive combination of words relating to its which explains the sequence of letters as an abbreviation of the descriptive words."

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