“Resilience” is a technical term used in particular in the field of psychology which designates mental resilience or the ability to survive difficult life situations without lasting impairment. The term ‘circuit training’ designates a special method of fitness training in which different stations have to be completed one after the other, each of which focuses on specific areas (e.g. endurance, mobility or speed). The combination of words “Resilienz-Zirkel-Training” thus has the meaning of a training to strengthen resilience, i.e. resistance and inner strength, which is necessary to master complex situations, challenges and difficult life crises and which is easily understandable for the addressed circles. The preceding sequence of letters ‘RZT’ clearly consists of the first letters of the following word combination (acronym) and thus appears only as an accessory part of the overall designation, which shares the descriptive character of the word combination.
The decision is consistent with settled case-law, according to which acronyms lack distinctive character if they are explained by the subsequent word combination and the word combination is to be regarded as descriptive (see in particular BGH GRUR 2012, 616 et seq. – NAI Der Natur-Aktien-Index).
