The trademark TIGER was filed by KNDS Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG, a corporation established under the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany (the "Applicant"). The application was published for oppositions on June 13, 2022, and received one opposition filed on September 12, 2022 by COMPAGNIE GÉNÉRALE DES ÉTABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN on Likelihood of confusion. the opponent was represented by JACOBACCI & PARTNERS, S.L.U. and proceedings were handled in English, and the oppositon was dismissed by the Euorpean Union Intellectual Property Office with decision issued September 12, 2022
The application was filed in German, and German was also language of all opposition proceedings (English was selected as the second language).
Change of name and address of the trademark registration was recorded on July 29, 2024.
Goods And Services
The mark was filed in class 12 with following description of goods:
Armour protected land vehicles
Military land vehicles
Tracked vehicles
Police vehicles
Patrol vehicles
Ambulance vehicles
Recovery vehicles
Pioneering vehicles
Reconnaissance vehicles
NBC reconnaissance vehicles
Bomb and mine clearance vehicles
Combat vehicles
Bridge laying vehicles
Amphibious vehicles
Parts, replacement parts and accessories for the aforementioned goods, Other than for use in the agricultural sector and excluding pneumatic tires for vehicle wheels, inner tubes for pneumatic tires, treads for retreading tires and tracks for tracked vehicles
None of the aforesaid goods being motorcycles or aircraft.
The mark was filed in class 13 with following description of goods:
Firearms
Ballistic weapons
Weapons
Weapon systems
Artillery weapons
Tanks
Tanks
Armoured fighting vehicles
Armoured track vehicles
Wheeled tanks
Artillery guns [cannons]
Rocket launchers
Mortars [firearms]
Anti-aircraft weapons
Motorized weapons
Gun mounts, in particular Remote controlled gun mounts
Gun carriages [artillery]
Rifles
Machine guns
Mortars
Firing platforms
Loading units for weapons
Ammunition and propellant rammers for weapons
Sighting devices and target devices for weapons
Ammunition
Projectiles
Rockets
Explosives
Detonators
Mines
Parts for the aforesaid goods, replacements for the aforementioned goods, accessories for the aforesaid goods
All the aforesaid goods, not in relation to the following fields: Equipping of helicopters.
The mark was filed in class 37 with Installation services, maintenance, refitting, modernization, repairing, in relation to the following goods: Tanks, tank components, Machinery, Machine components, land vehicle, Land vehicle components, Weapons, Weapon components, Weapon systems, Weapon system components, technical equipment and installations, Computer hardware, simulators and none of the aforesaid services in relation to aviation vehicles and all the aforesaid services excluding those related to pneumatic tires for vehicle wheels, inner tubes for pneumatic tires and treads for retreading tires..