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Audio Business Zoom KK fails to get trademark "Zoom" invalidated

Lawstreet Journal 21 Aug 2021 7:34pm

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Zoom KK, a producer of sound systems, has failed to persuade the EU General Court and lost its ongoing lawsuit. It was unable to demonstrate that a facial recognition software company's trademark, ‘Zoom,’ violates on several of its earlier markings.

The EU General Court's second chamber, on the other hand, denied Tokyo-based Zoom KK's application, noting, Although the marks being authorized under Class 09 of the Nice Agreement, the organization failed to prove that there was a probability of misunderstanding amongst them. The European Intellectual Property Office's (EUIPO) Board of Appeals made no reference of the standards used to determine the probability of misunderstanding in earlier cases in its evaluation.

Facetec is a biometrics business located in Las Vegas that originally registered its trademark 'Zoom' with the EUIPO in October 2016. The use of it was for security software that allows customers to protect and manage all of their portable devices using a multi-dimensional biometric identification function.

Zoom KK has filed a trademark application in which it argued infringement on its EU word mark 'Zoom,' which it initially registered in 1999 under classes 09 and 15. Zoom KK's opposition was disregarded by both the EUIPO's opposing party department and the Board of Appeals, resulting in the present appeal to the General Court.

Zoom KK seemed dissatisfied with the Board of Appeal judgement in General Judicial proceedings. It went on to say that the trademarks were comparable. The EUIPO made an error in evaluating all of the commodities affiliated with… Continue Reading...

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