CELEX: 62009TN0424
Language: en
Date: 2009-10-14 00:00:00
Title: Case T-424/09: Action brought on 14 October 2009 — Goodyear Dunlop Tyres UK Ltd v OHIM — Sportfive (QUALIFIER)

19.12.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 312/38
            
         Action brought on 14 October 2009 — Goodyear Dunlop Tyres UK Ltd v OHIM — Sportfive (QUALIFIER)
   (Case T-424/09)
   2009/C 312/63
   Language in which the application was lodged: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Goodyear Dunlop Tyres UK Ltd (Birmingham, United Kingdom) (represented by: M. Graf, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM: Sportfive GmbH & Co. KG (Cologne, Germany)
   
      Form of order sought
   
   
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               Annul the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) of 11 August 2009 in case R 1291/2008 4;
            
         
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               Order the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) to pay the costs of the proceedings.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   
      Applicant for a Community trade mark: Goodyear Dunlop Tyres UK Ltd
   
      Community trade mark concerned: the word mark “QUALIFIER’ for goods in Class 12 (Application No 4 877 262)
   
      Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings: Sportfive GmbH & Co. KG
   
      Mark or sign cited in opposition: Community word mark No 4 017 836 and German word mark No 30 415 017.1 ‘Qualifiers 2006’, German word/figurative mark No 30 414 610.2 ‘2006 QUALIFIERS’, the German word mark No 30 515 033.2 ‘Qualifiers 2008’ and German word/figurative mark Nr. 30 565 616.3 ‘2008 QUALIFIERS’, all registered inter alia for goods in Class 12
   
      Decision of the Opposition Division: Allow the opposition
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Dismissed the appeal
   
      Pleas in law: Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009 (1) in that there is a likelihood of confusion between the two marks
   
      (1)  Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 of 26 February 2009 on the Community trade mark (OJ 2009 L 78, p. 1).