The trademark Avenos was filed by Michael Eberstein, a national of the Federal Republic of Germany (the "Applicant"). The application was published for oppositions on October 18, 2011, and received one opposition filed on January 16, 2012 by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. on Likelihood of confusion. and proceedings were handled in English, and the oppositon was dismissed by the Euorpean Union Intellectual Property Office with decision issued January 16, 2012
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 7 with following description of goods:
Wind power machines, namely wind energy-powered machines and equipment for energy production, included in class 7
Turbines, in particular wind turbines (except for land vehicles)
Parts and fittings (included in class 07) for the aforesaid wind power machines, in particular rotor blades, rotor consoles, blade hubs, machine housings, rotation devices, yaw rings, yaw gears, brakes, main drive shafts, universal joints, gears, gear boxes, couplings, motors, mechanical rotor adjusters, electric generators and emergency power units.
The mark was filed in class 9 with following description of goods:
Switch cabinets (electric installation material) and electric and electronic instruments and apparatus contained therein for recording, processing, storage and transmission of data
Switch cabinets (electric installation material) and electric and electronic control apparatus and instruments contained therein
Electric and electronic regulating apparatus
Electric and electronic regulating, checking (supervision), control and monitoring apparatus and instruments
Data processing equipment, computers and computer software
Interfaces (for computers)
Power surge protection equipment
Vibration sensors
Watt-hour meters
Converters (electric converters)
Electric transformers
All the aforesaid goods being for wind power installations and wind farms.
The mark was filed in class 37 with following description of goods:
Building construction in the field of wind power installations
Installation relating to wind power installations
Maintenance, reconditioning of machines that are worn out or partially destroyed, servicing and repair of wind power installations