Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

**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:**

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|  | 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**

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| 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:

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| 1. |  | Dismisses the action; |

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| 2. |  | Orders Bayern Innovativ – Bayerische Gesellschaft für Innovation und Wissenstransfer mbH to pay the costs. |

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