CELEX: 62010TJ0188
Language: en
Date: 2010-12-15 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Fourth Chamber) of 15 December 2010. # DTL Corporación, SL v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community figurative mark Solaria - Earlier national figurative mark SOLARTIA - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Similarity of the services - Similarity of the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009. # Case T-188/10.

Judgment of the General Court (Fourth Chamber) of 15 December 2010 – DTL v OHIM – Gestión de Recursos y Soluciones Empresariales
            (Solaria)
      (Case T-188/10)
      Community trade mark – Opposition proceedings – Application for Community figurative mark Solaria – Earlier national figurative mark SOLARTIA – Relative ground for refusal – Likelihood of confusion – Similarity of the services – Similarity of the signs – Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009
      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 207/2009, Art. 8(1)(b)) (see paras 25-26, 45, 52)
      
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 17 February 2010 (Case R 767/2009-2) relating
                  to opposition proceedings between Gestión de Recursos y Soluciones Empresariales SL and DTL Corporación SL.
               
            Information relating to the case 
      
               Applicant for the Community trade mark: 
            
            
               DTL Corporación, SL
            
         
               Community trade mark sought:
            
            
               Figurative mark containing the word element Solaria for services in Classes 37, 41 and 42 – Application No 5153325
            
         
               Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings:
            
            
               Gestiόn de Recursos y Soluciones Empresariales, SL
            
         
               Mark or sign cited in opposition:
            
            
               Spanish figurative mark containing the word element SOLARTIA No 2689747 for services in Classes 37 and 42 
            
         
               Decision of the Opposition Division:
            
            
               Opposition partially upheld 
            
         
               Decision of the Board of Appeal:
            
            
               Appeal dismissed 
            
         
      Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders DTL Corporación SL to pay the costs.