TRADE MARK — Registration — Grounds for refusal or invalidation of registration — Trade mark including number 1717 — Public likely to incorrectly perceive number as indicating proprietor’s business established in distant past — Whether by evoking prestige associated with centuries-old business trade mark deceptive as to quality of goods and therefore liable to be declared invalid — Parliament and Council Directive 2008/95/EC, art 3(1)(g)
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