The trademark CROWN Casino Royal was filed by NOVOMATIC AG, a corporation established under the laws of the Republic of Austria (the "Applicant"). The application was published for oppositions on September 7, 2008, and received one opposition filed on December 7, 2008 by Crown Melbourne Limited on (a) Likelihood of confusion, (b) Earlier non registered TM & right to prohibit use of later TM under national law. the opponent was represented by SIMMONS & SIMMONS LLP and proceedings were handled in English, and the oppositon was dismissed by the Euorpean Union Intellectual Property Office with decision issued December 7, 2008
The application was filed in German, and German was also language of all opposition proceedings (English was selected as the second language).
The renewal of the trademark was recorded by the office on July 18, 2018.
The Appeal with reference B R1185/2011-4 was Trade mark application allowed according to Rule 15 CTMIR with decision issued on January 21, 2013 by the EUIPO. The Opposition with reference B 001443730 was rejected according to Article 8(1)(b) CTMR with decision issued on April 3, 2011 by the EUIPO.
Goods And Services
The mark was filed in class 9 with Hardware and software, in particular for casino and amusement arcade games, for gaming machines, slot machines or video lottery gaming machines.
The mark was filed in class 28 with following description of goods:
Casino games, gaming machines and automatic gaming machines, in particular for commercial use in casinos and amusement arcades, with or without a prize payout
Slot machines and/or electronic money-based gaming apparatus with or without prizes
Housings for slot machines and gaming machines
Electronic or electrotechnical gaming apparatus, gaming machines and automatic gaming machines, slot machines operated by coins, tokens, banknotes, tickets or by means of electronic, magnetic or biometric storage media, in particular for commercial use in casinos and amusement arcades, with or without a prize payout
Housings for slot machines, gaming apparatus, gaming machines and automatic gaming machines operated by means of coins, tokens, tickets or by means of electronic, magnetic or biometric storage media
Electric, electronic or electromechanical apparatus for bingo games, lotteries or video lottery games and for betting offices, networked or unnetworked
Electropneumatic and electric pulling machines (gaming machines).