The trademark WILDCAT was filed by Krauss-Maffei Wegmann 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 August 4, 2022 by Caterpillar Inc. on (a) Likelihood of confusion, (b) Unfair advantage and detriment to distinctiveness or repute. the opponent was represented by HOGAN LOVELLS and proceedings were handled in English, and the oppositon was dismissed by the Euorpean Union Intellectual Property Office with decision issued August 4, 2022
The application was filed in German, and German was also language of all opposition proceedings (English was selected as the second language).
Goods And Services
The mark was filed in class 12 with following description of goods:
Vehicles for use on land
Motorized land vehicles
Armour protected land vehicles
Military land vehicles
Tracked vehicles
Wheeled vehicles
Police vehicles
Patrol vehicles
Ambulance vehicles
Recovery vehicles
Pioneering vehicles
Reconnaissance vehicles
Flusher vehicles
Bomb disposal vehicles
Transport vehicles
Combat vehicles
Bridge laying vehicles
Amphibious vehicles
Replacement parts, fittings and accessories for the aforementioned goods.
The mark was filed in class 13 with following description of goods:
Fowling pieces
Ballistic weapons
Weapons
Weapon systems
Artillery weapons
Tanks
Tanks
Armoured fighting vehicles
Armoured track vehicles
Light-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 piecings 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.
The mark was filed in class 37 with Installation services, maintenance, refitting, modernization, fix, 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.