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Document 62007TJ0413

Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber) of 11 February 2009.
Bayern Innovativ - Bayerische Gesellschaft für Innovation und Wissenstransfer mbH v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM).
Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the figurative Community trade mark LifeScience - Earlier Community trade mark Life Sciences Partners - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94.
Case T-413/07.

Thuarascálacha na Cúirte Eorpaí 2009 II-00016*

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:T:2009:34





Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber) of 11 February 2009 – Bayern Innovativ v OHIM – Life Sciences Partners Perstock (LifeScience)

(Case T-413/07)

Community trade mark – Opposition proceedings − Application for the figurative Community trade mark LifeScience − Earlier Community trade mark Life Sciences Partners − Relative ground for refusal − Likelihood of confusion − Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94

Community trade mark – Definition and acquisition of the Community trade mark – Relative grounds for refusal – Opposition by the proprietor of an earlier identical or similar mark registered for identical or similar goods or services – Likelihood of confusion with the earlier mark (Council Regulation No 40/94, Art. 8(1)(b)) (see paras 29, 58)

Re:

ACTION brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 2 August 2007 (Case R 1545/2006‑1), relating to opposition proceedings between Life Sciences Partners Perstock NV and Bayern Innovativ – Bayerische Gesellschaft für Innovation und Wissenstransfer mbH.

Information relating to the case

Applicant for the Community trade mark:

Bayern Innovativ – Bayerische Gesellschaft für Innovation und Wissenstransfer mbH

Community trade mark sought:

Figurative mark compromising a representation in colour of a DNA spiral, an oval, a grill and, in the lower part, the word elements LifeScience, designating goods and services in Classes 16, 35, 36, 41 and 42 – Application No 3585957

Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in support of the opposition proceedings:

Life Sciences Partners Perstock NV

Mark or sign cited in opposition:

Community figurative mark comprising a representation of a naked woman surrounded by a DNA spiral and containing the word elements Life Sciences Partners, for services in Classes 35 and 36 – Application No 2136026

Decision of the Opposition Division:

Opposition upheld.

Decision of the Board of Appeal:

Appeal dismissed


Operative part

The Court:

1.

Dismisses the action;

2.

Orders Bayern Innovativ – Bayerische Gesellschaft für Innovation und Wissenstransfer mbH to pay the costs.

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