In 20 15, Huawei submitted trademark names such as "Huawei Watch GT3" and "Huawei Watch GT5" to the European Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) to lay out the long-term development of Huawei's smart watch business in Europe. At that time, although Sony did not directly sue Huawei, it was reported that Sony did not welcome Huawei's naming method.
In 20 16, Sony made a comprehensive evaluation of Huawei's application for "GT" name trademark, and thought that it infringed the trademark right of the company's famous game IP "GT Racing Car", which was easy to mislead the public consumers and was not conducive to the company's long-term development. GT Racing is a well-known racing game released by Sony on its own game console platform PlayStation. As a result, Sony launched its first lawsuit against Huawei on 20 16, demanding that Huawei stop naming smart watches after "GT".
On 20 18, Huawei released the smart watch watch GT.
In June, 20021,Huawei launched the first smart watch Huawei Watch 3 equipped with HarmonyOS system. Although there is no new product in GT series, according to the time, the watch GT3 is already on its way.
In August, 20021,Sony initiated a lawsuit against Huawei for the third time on the trademark dispute of "GT". Sony insists that it owns the "GT" trademark. Although there is no conclusion yet, Sony will never give up.
On September 27th, 2002/kloc-0, Huawei submitted several trademark applications for "WATCGT3", "WATCGT5", "WATCGT8" and "WATCGT 10" to the UK IPO. The reason for submitting the application again is that Britain has now left the European Union, which is conducive to maintaining the initiative in the British market.
Huawei also has its own understanding of Sony's many lawsuits. First, Huawei watch GT is in the field of smart terminals in terms of trademarks, and Sony adheres to GT in the field of games. The trademark classification of the two is obviously different. Second, the name GT is not unique to Sony, and similar uses include Nissan's "GTR".
Niu Niu believes that Sony's lawsuit against Huawei is nothing more than to limit the development of potential competitors and build protective barriers, which is understandable to some extent. But as far as Niu Niu knows, there are many products with GT names, such as cars, electronics, games and so on. I wonder if these companies will tremble when they hear Sony suing Huawei?