Question juridique clé
Whether the sign WILSON is excluded from trademark protection as common property, in particular for lack of distinctiveness or because it is a geographical indication.
Solution extraite
The relevant Swiss consumer groups do not know WILSON as the name of the city in North Carolina; therefore the sign is not understood as a geographical indication and is not non-distinctive on that ground.
Motifs extraits
A geographic meaning only matters if it is known to the relevant Swiss public. Since WILSON is not known to them as a place name, there is no source-of-origin association.