ORO - 164895-164896-164898-164899

• Administrative Decision Number: 164895-164896-164898-164899
• Date: 20 January 2003
• opponent: ELIDA LEVER IRELAND LIMITED

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TRADE MARKS ACT, 1963

Decision in Hearing under Section 26

IN THE MATTER OF applications for the registration of Trade Marks Nos. 164895,

164896, 164898 and 164899 and in the matter of oppositions thereto.

ORO-PRODUKTE-MARKETING GmbH Applicant

ELIDA LEVER IRELAND LIMITED Opponent

The applications

1. On 26 May, 1994, ORO-PRODUKTE-MARKETING GmbH, a Gesellschaft mit

beschrankter Haftung organised and existing under the laws of the Federal

Republic of Germany (as it then was), of Dieselstrasse 10, D-32120

Hiddenhausen, Federal Republic of Germany, Manufacturers and Merchants,

made four applications for the registration of Trade Marks in Part A of the

Register, the details of which were as follows:

Applic.

No.

Advertised

as No.

Mark Class Goods

94/3185 164895 ORO (stylised) 3 Household cleaning materials in solid, fluid, powder and

paste forms, excluding the foregoing for the cleaning of

precious metals; scouring salts, preparations for body

care and beauty care; soaps, perfumery, hair lotions,

shampoos, dentifrices, teeth polishing preparations,

deodorants for personal use, all included in Class 3

94/3186 164896 ORO (stylised) 5 Air freshening preparations in fluid, sprayable and solid

form

94/3188 164898 ORO FRISCH

AKTIV

(stylised) and

device

3 Cleaning preparations and care preparations for surfaces

of wood, plastics, glass, lacquer, metal as well as for

textile and ceramic surfaces; floor cleaning preparations

and floor care preparations, preparations for the care of