Trade mark opposition in Argentina

The German SME ‘Fordermorder GmbH’, specialised in the manufacturing of machine components, decided to expand their business to Latin America and Argentina was selected as the first destination. The EU SME was aware of the importance of IP protection, and decided to register the company’s name and logo as trade marks, as well as the name of their star product “Zeit”. The trade mark applications were filed for products included in Class 7 of the Nice Classification: machines and machine tools; motors and engines (except for land vehicles); machine coupling and transmission components (except for land vehicles); agricultural implements other than hand-operated, etc.