Cultural Heritage Trade Mark Application Rejected

Ramon Confectionary, a famous entity in Russia, filed trade mark application number 2013705310 in respect of goods in class 30 (pictured below).

The figurative trade mark application carries an inscription for those who do not know: "Princess Oldenburg's Palace" and the words "Nobility Mansion" below the image.

The application was rejected, the reason being that the word element "Princess Oldenburg's Palace" and the figurative element of the claimed designation reproduces a fragment of the Oldenburg's Palace, a mansion of late nineteenth century in a small Ramon town in the vicinity of the city of Voronezh in central Russia. Indeed, this is a mirror image of the fragment of the photographic picture.