The trademark ALPINI KNITWEAR was filed by Jianhua zhou, a national of the People's Republic of China (the "Applicant"). The application was published for oppositions on November 3, 2019, and received one opposition filed on February 2, 2020 by Cotonificio Albini SpA on Likelihood of confusion. the opponent was represented by POTTER CLARKSON LLP and proceedings were handled in English, and the oppositon was dismissed by the Euorpean Union Intellectual Property Office with decision issued February 2, 2020
The application was filed in Italian, and Italian was also language of all opposition proceedings (English was selected as the second language).
The Opposition with reference B 003110496 was refused according to Article 8(1)(b) EUTMR with decision issued on November 30, 2020 by the EUIPO.