{"id":5112,"date":"2022-01-12T19:45:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T18:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augelegalfiscal.com\/cancellacio-d-una-marca-andorrana-degut-a-l-existencia-d-un-dret-anterior\/"},"modified":"2022-01-23T21:41:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T20:41:17","slug":"cancellacio-d-una-marca-andorrana-degut-a-l-existencia-d-un-dret-anterior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augelegalfiscal.com\/ca\/cancellacio-d-una-marca-andorrana-degut-a-l-existencia-d-un-dret-anterior\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancel\u00b7laci\u00f3 d\u2019una marca andorrana degut a l\u2019exist\u00e8ncia d\u2019un dret anterior"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5112\" class=\"elementor elementor-5112 elementor-5102\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-26d39aab elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default 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continguts<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #8f2b2f;color:#8f2b2f\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #8f2b2f;color:#8f2b2f\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 eztoc-toggle-hide-by-default' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.augelegalfiscal.com\/ca\/cancellacio-d-una-marca-andorrana-degut-a-l-existencia-d-un-dret-anterior\/#Cancellacio_duna_marca_andorrana_degut_a_lexistencia_dun_dret_anterior\" >Cancel\u00b7laci\u00f3 d\u2019una marca andorrana degut a l\u2019exist\u00e8ncia d\u2019un dret anterior<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Cancellacio_duna_marca_andorrana_degut_a_lexistencia_dun_dret_anterior\"><\/span>Cancel\u00b7laci\u00f3 d\u2019una marca andorrana degut a l\u2019exist\u00e8ncia d\u2019un dret anterior<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3b0e7f18 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3b0e7f18\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Per decisi\u00f3 motivada del 28 de juliol de 2021, el Tribunal d&#8217;Andorra (Batllia) va anul\u00b7lar la marca andorrana Fidelity Investments a causa de l&#8217;exist\u00e8ncia d&#8217;una marca anterior FIDELITY INVESTMENTS, que constitueix un dret anterior segons la Llei de marques d&#8217;Andorra.<\/p>\n<p>Els fets s&#8217;exposen clarament en la sent\u00e8ncia dictada: la societat FIL LIMITED posseeix nombroses marques a tot el m\u00f3n relacionades amb el signe FIDELITY INVESTMENTS i, en particular, va registrar la marca verbal FIDELITY INVESTMENTS a l&#8217;Oficina de Marques del Principat d&#8217;Andorra el 14 de juliol de 1998 per designar tota una s\u00e8rie de serveis financers inclosos a la classe 36 (de la Classificaci\u00f3 de Ni\u00e7a). Aquesta marca andorrana va ser registrada sota el n\u00famero 11089 i est\u00e0 en vigor.<\/p>\n<p>La societat LINCOLN CAPITAL, LTD va registrar la marca Fidelity Investments el 9 de gener de 2020 per designar igualment serveis financers inclosos a la Classe 36. Aquesta marca va ser registrada amb el n\u00famero 40950.<\/p>\n<p>En aquest context, la societat FIL LIMITED va iniciar un procediment judicial davant del Tribunal andorr\u00e0, amb el prop\u00f2sit de sol\u00b7licitar la nul\u00b7litat de la marca Fidelity Investments de LINCOLN CAPITAL, LTD.<\/p>\n<p>La part demandada va decidir no ser representada en el procediment i, per tant, va ser declarada en rebel\u00b7lia processal mitjan\u00e7ant aute del 18 de mar\u00e7 de 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Sobre el fons del cas, el jutge va recordar les disposicions legislatives aplicables en mat\u00e8ria de drets anteriors establerts a l&#8217;article 3 de la Llei de marques d&#8217;Andorra:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00ab1) No es pot adoptar com a marca o com a element d&#8217;una marca cap signe que lesioni un dret anterior.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>2) Es considera constituent d&#8217;un dret anterior:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>a) una marca id\u00e8ntica o similar registrada per a productes i\/o serveis id\u00e8ntics o similars si la data de registre de la marca [&#8230;] \u00e9s anterior;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(&#8230;) \u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<p>La decisi\u00f3 considera, en primer lloc, que els dos signes en pres\u00e8ncia s\u00f3n id\u00e8ntics, \u00abque nom\u00e9s es diferencien en la tipografia utilitzada, la primera marca est\u00e0 en maj\u00fascules mentre que la segona est\u00e0 en min\u00fascules, per\u00f2 totes dues designen els mateixos termes\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>En segon lloc, una comparaci\u00f3 dels serveis designats per les marques en q\u00fcesti\u00f3 mostra que una gran majoria d&#8217;aquests serveis s\u00f3n id\u00e8ntics i que altres dels serveis designats s\u00f3n similars, \u201cla qual cosa comporta un clar risc de confusi\u00f3 o associaci\u00f3 a la ment del p\u00fablic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>El jutge conclou justificadament que la marca posterior vulnera els drets del demandant respecte a la marca anterior FIDELITY INVESTMENTS n\u00famero 11089, declarant aix\u00ed &#8220;la nul\u00b7litat de la marca n\u00famero 40950 de la societat LINCOLN CAPITAL LTD, de conformitat amb les disposicions de l&#8217;article 26.2 de la Llei de Marques&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>D&#8217;aquesta manera, la sent\u00e8ncia establerta aplica correctament les normes pertinents i ordena la inscripci\u00f3 de la resoluci\u00f3 al registre andorr\u00e0 de Marques, prohibint a la part demandada utilitzar el signe FIDELITY INVESTMENT per designar productes financers al territori del Principat d&#8217;Andorra i condemnant-la al pagament de les costes processals.<\/p>\n<p>A falta d&#8217;apel\u00b7laci\u00f3 per part demandada, aquesta sent\u00e8ncia \u00e9s ferma.<\/p>\n<p>Cal plantejar dos aspectes pr\u00e0ctics sobre aquesta decisi\u00f3:<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7ef8f17d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7ef8f17d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul>\n<li>la rapidesa del procediment que va conduir a una decisi\u00f3 en primera inst\u00e0ncia, i<\/li>\n<li>la import\u00e0ncia de registrar una marca andorrana per cobrir el territori del Principat d&#8217;Andorra i aix\u00ed poder disposar d&#8217;una base legal per sol\u00b7licitar la nul\u00b7litat de les marques pirates posteriors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4e352afe elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4e352afe\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Jonathan Hinkson<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Departament de Propietat Intel\u00b7lectual<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #a22d58;\">Aug\u00e9 Legal &amp; Fiscal<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3b7fd5bc elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"3b7fd5bc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Per decisi\u00f3 motivada del 28 de juliol de 2021, el Tribunal d&#8217;Andorra (Batllia) va anul\u00b7lar la marca andorrana Fidelity Investments a causa de l&#8217;exist\u00e8ncia d&#8217;una marca anterior FIDELITY INVESTMENTS, que constitueix un dret anterior segons la Llei de marques d&#8217;Andorra. Els fets s&#8217;exposen clarament en la sent\u00e8ncia dictada: la societat FIL LIMITED posseeix nombroses marques [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auge"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augelegalfiscal.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augelegalfiscal.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augelegalfiscal.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augelegalfiscal.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augelegalfiscal.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.augelegalfiscal.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5133,"href":"https:\/\/www.augelegalfiscal.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions\/5133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augelegalfiscal.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augelegalfiscal.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augelegalfiscal.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augelegalfiscal.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}