The trademark Eltherma was filed by SECO/WARWICK S.A., a corporation established under the laws of the Republic of Poland (the "Applicant"). The application was published for oppositions on April 11, 2022, and received one opposition filed on July 4, 2022 by Interinwest Polska S.A. S.K.A. on (a) Identity of marks and Goods and Services, (b) Likelihood of confusion. the opponent was represented by Bąkowska, Karolina and proceedings were handled in English, and the oppositon was dismissed by the Euorpean Union Intellectual Property Office with decision issued July 4, 2022
The application was filed in Polish, and Polish was also language of all opposition proceedings (English was selected as the second language).
The Opposition with reference B 003174155 was refused according to Article 8(1)(b) EUTMR with decision issued on July 13, 2023 by the EUIPO.
Goods And Services
The mark was filed in class 9 with Electric apparatus and installations for measuring, control, regulating, monitoring and remote control of technological processes in industrial furnaces, in particular in furnaces for heat treatment, chemical treatment and heat and chemical treatment of metals.
The mark was filed in class 11 with Industrial furnaces, production lines, installations and apparatus for heat treatment, chemical treatment and heat and chemical treatment of metals and Muffle furnaces, belt furnaces, soaking-pit furnaces, bogie hearth furnaces, horizontal retort furnaces and metal smelting furnaces, namely: shaft tank furnaces, crucible furnaces and tank furnaces, for refining and modification of casting alloys, hot-dip galvanizing furnaces with steel or ceramic tanks, and auxiliary apparatus for furnaces, namely: loading apparatus, atmosphere generating apparatus and quenching tanks..