Inside Italian Merchandise Marks

PC World reports on an upcoming Italian merchandise rank dispute betwixt Intel as well as an Italian figurer manufacturer. SBF Elettronica SRL manufactures PCs inward a suburb of Naples. It uses a logo containing the words "G Genoa Power Inside" on its machines since, at ane fourth dimension it used motherboards produced yesteryear a companionship named Genoa (though it has ceased to practise as well as therefore since the companionship went bankrupt). Chip-maker Intel claims that the Italian company’s purpose infringes its INTEL INSIDE logo, which is registered every bit a merchandise rank inward the EU. SBF’s lawyer claims that in that place is no infringement. He states:

“SBF says in that place is no such conduct chances [of confusion], that G Genoa is a complex merchandise rank as well as that 'Inside' is a term inward mutual English linguistic communication purpose that does non of itself evoke the Intel merchandise mark."

He claims that the color as well as the pattern of the 2 logos are real different.

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