The trademark SOPENA INNOVATIONS was filed by SOPENA INNOVATIONS, S.L., a corporation established under the laws of the Kingdom of Spain (the "Applicant"). The application was published for oppositions on March 21, 2014, and received one opposition filed on June 20, 2014 by HOLDING SOPREMA, société anonyme à directoire on Likelihood of confusion. the opponent was represented by HIRSCH & ASSOCIÉS and proceedings were handled in English, and the oppositon was dismissed by the Euorpean Union Intellectual Property Office with decision issued June 20, 2014
The application was filed in Spanish, and Spanish was also language of all opposition proceedings (English was selected as the second language).
Goods And Services
The mark was filed in class 6 with following description of goods:
Common metals and their alloys
Metal building materials
Transportable buildings of metal
Materials of metal for railway tracks
Elevator chains
Non-electric cables and wires of common metal
Ironmongery, small items of metal hardware
Pipework of metal
Safes
Metal sheet, strip and coil
Meshes of common metal
Pipes and tubes of metal
Fixing devices of metal
Wall ties of metal
Metal doors
Palisading of metal
Windows of metal
Window covers of metal
Metal ores and in particular profile sections of metal, in iron and aluminium.
The mark was filed in class 19 with following description of goods:
Building materials (non-metallic)
Non-metallic rigid pipes for building
Asphalt, pitch and bitumen
Non-metallic transportable buildings
Monuments, not of metal and, in particular, profiles of plastic and pvc.
The mark was filed in class 39 with Transport, storage and distribution of goods of all kinds, in particular profiles of iron, aluminium, plastic and pvc.