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Cybergun SA. registered European trademark AK 47 for classes 9, 24, 25, 28 and 38. The Boards of appeal, overturning the Cancellation division’ s refusal, cancelled the CTM on the grounds of Article 7(1) (c) CTMR.
The General Court recently issued a decision on the matter in the following cases T-503/09 and T-419/09.
According to the court that mark should be cancelled on absolute grounds as the AK 47 is an abbreviation of the name of Mr. Kalashnikov, who created an automatic weapon named AK 47 ( A for automatic and K for Kalashnikov, 47 is the year of its creation) .
The Court considers that the mark was descriptive of some of those goods as rifle toys, and electronic services using guns replica and scale models using virtual targets and so on.
http://intellectualpropertyplanet.blogspot.com/2011/05/ak-47-cant-serve-as-european-trademark.html