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Document 62010CO0156
Order of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 15 December 2010. # Karen Goncharov v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Appeals - Community trade mark - Marks consisting of acronyms - Earlier trade mark DSB - Word sign 'DSBW' - Opposition proceedings - Relative ground for refusal - Examination of the likelihood of confusion - Visual similarity - Aural similarity - Inadmissibility - Assessment of the facts. # Case C-156/10 P.
Order of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 15 December 2010.
Karen Goncharov v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM).
Appeals - Community trade mark - Marks consisting of acronyms - Earlier trade mark DSB - Word sign 'DSBW' - Opposition proceedings - Relative ground for refusal - Examination of the likelihood of confusion - Visual similarity - Aural similarity - Inadmissibility - Assessment of the facts.
Case C-156/10 P.
Order of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 15 December 2010.
Karen Goncharov v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM).
Appeals - Community trade mark - Marks consisting of acronyms - Earlier trade mark DSB - Word sign 'DSBW' - Opposition proceedings - Relative ground for refusal - Examination of the likelihood of confusion - Visual similarity - Aural similarity - Inadmissibility - Assessment of the facts.
Case C-156/10 P.
European Court Reports 2010 I-00168*
ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2010:767
- Authentic language:
- njemački
- Date of document:
- 15/12/2010
- Date lodged:
- 01/04/2010
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- Author:
- Sud
- Country or organisation from which the request originates:
- Privremeni podaci, Rusija
- Form:
- Rješenje
- Type of procedure:
- Tužba za poništenje, Žalba - odbacivanje zbog nedopuštenostii
- Appellant:
- Pojedinac
- Other parties to the proceedings:
- Institucije, Pojedinac, Ured za harmonizaciju na unutarnjem tržištu (žigovi i industrijski dizajni)
- Judge-Rapporteur:
- Juhász
- Advocate General:
- Bot
- Treaty:
- Ugovor o osnivanju Europske ekonomske zajednice
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Order of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 15 December 2010 – Goncharov v OHIM
(Case C‑156/10 P)
Appeal – Community trade mark – Marks consisting of acronyms – Earlier trade mark DSB – Word sign ‘DSBW’ – Opposition proceedings – Relative ground for refusal – Examination of the likelihood of confusion – Visual similarity – Aural similarity – Inadmissibility – Assessment of the facts
Appeals – Grounds – Incorrect assessment of the facts and evidence – Inadmissibility – Review by the Court of the assessment of the facts and evidence – Possible only where the clear sense of the evidence has been distorted (Art. 256(1), second para., TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.) (see para. 38)
Re:
| Appeal against the judgment of the General Court (Fourth Chamber) of 21 January 2010 in Case T-34/07 | Goncharov | v | OHIM – DSB (DSBW) | by which the General Court dismissed the action for annulment of the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 4 December 2006 refusing registration of the word sign ‘DSBW’ as a Community trade mark for certain services in Classes 39, 41 and 43 and upholding the opposition of the proprietor of the earlier Community word mark ‘DSB’ – Likelihood of confusion – Account not taken, during the examination of the likelihood of confusion, of the particularities of marks consisting of acronyms – Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94. |
Operative part
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The appeal is dismissed. |
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Mr Goncharov is ordered to pay the costs. |
