Brands - Distinctive Signs
12 of February,2013

There is not likelihood of confusion between CITI and CITY according to new OHIM ruling

There is not likelihood of confusion between CITI and CITY according to new OHIM ruling

Inés Cantero Clivillé

In spite of the phonetic coincidence between the word “CITY” included in all the applications and the earlier marks (“CITI”), which leads into a phonetic identity and also into a certain degree of visual similarity due to the coincidence in the first three letters of the signs, the oppositions were not upheld,