1. ESTONIAN PATENT OFFICE Examination of languages other than official national language 2012

2. ESTONIAN PATENT OFFICE TM is considered to be descriptive when… …TM consists of the word that describes the G/S AND …the local consumer understands the meaning of this word C-421/04 (09/03/2006) Matratzen Concord AG vs Hukla Germany SA * Same criteria for foreign languages and local dialects. 2

3. ESTONIAN PATENT OFFICE 3 a Russian phrase for Russian potato Cl 30 potato chips NOT REGISTERED suomenlaki appl.no M200600321 appl.no R201100429 TONMEISTER appl.no R201000207 a German term for sound editor, recordist Cl 41 NOT REGISTERED a Finnish term for Finnish law Cl 42 legal services NOT REGISTERED United Brokers appl.no M201100145 Cl 36 NOT REGISTERED Meaning is understandable when the word is… … in English, Russian, German, Finnish *

4. ESTONIAN PATENT OFFICE …in a language that is commonly used in the specific field, e.g. Italian for foods: carne, dolce, latte French for cosmetics: eau, femme, homme, rouge Latin for medicine and law: dentes, dosis, ius, lex …* 4

5. ESTONIAN PATENT OFFICE MAGNIFIQUE appl.no R200703158 a French word for magnificent Cl 3 NOT REGISTERED INFORMATICA appl.no R201100685 reg.no 1010588 an Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch word for computer science cf. informaatika in Estonian Cl 9 NOT REGISTERED an Italian, Spanish word for myrrh cf. mürr in Estonian Cl 5 NOT REGISTERED for some G/S * 5 …in a language that is commonly not familiar, but the word stem is understandable by the public

6. ESTONIAN PATENT OFFICE Examples that do not follow the criteria reg.no 973182 a Latvian* term for delicacy, dainty, titbit; cf. maiustus in Estonian Cl 30 REGISTERED HOSPODA reg.no 48494 reg.no 48924 a Czech term for tavern, pub; cf. kõrts in Estonian Cl 43 REGISTERED a term in a local dialect for our taste, taste of our own; cf. oma maitse in Estonian Cl 29-33, 35 REGISTERED treating the phrase as not familiar 6

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