B9 11322. Gerecht EU, 12 juni 2012, zaak T-165/11, Stichting Regionaal Opleidingencentrum van Amsterdam tegen OHIM/ Investimust.
Merkenrecht. De Stichting Regionaal Opleidingencentrum van Amsterdam ( a.k.a. het College Hotel in Amsterdam) verzoekt de nietigverklaring van het gemeenschapswoordmerk COLLEGE (voor diensten op het gebied van horeca en toerisme , maar ziet haar verzoek afgewezen door het OHIM en het Gerecht. Anders dan het ROC stelt kan het woordmerk COLLEGE niet worden gezien als beschrijvend voor horeca of toeristische dienstverlening:
28. In those circumstances, inasmuch as the applicant has failed to establish that the contested trade mark is descriptive in character, it must be concluded that, in the present case, there is no general interest requiring that the term ‘college’ be capable of being used by all operators offering the relevant goods and services in Class 39 (tourism services).
(…) 32. As OHIM rightly points out, a user of a hotel accommodation service which uses the term ‘college’ cannot predict with sufficient precision the characteristics of that service that are linked to the term ‘college’. A former college converted into a hotel will not necessarily be decorated like a college, just as a hotel using the name ‘college’ will not necessarily be situated near an educational institution. In the same way, the building used by a hotel decorated like a college may have had other uses in the past and may be situated in an area without schools or colleges.
33. The same is, moreover, true of the fact that certain universities offer rooms. Even if one were to proceed on the assumption that a university corresponds to a college, it must be noted that that offer of rooms is then generally addressed to persons who, by reason of their profession or studies, are deemed to be attending a university for a prolonged period. Even though certain universities offer hotel accommodation services to the general public in cases where some student accommodation is vacant, such an offer is ancillary or complementary to the main activity of a university, namely teaching and research, as the Board of Appeal rightly points out in paragraph 24 of the contested decision.
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