CELEX: 62014TA0195
Language: en
Date: 2015-09-24 00:00:00
Title: Case T-195/14: Judgment of the General Court of 24 September 2015 — Primagaz v OHIM — Reeh (PRIMA KLIMA) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community figurative mark PRIMA KLIMA — Earlier Community figurative mark PRIMAGAZ — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Relevant public — Similarity of goods and services — Similarity of the signs — Distinctive character of a laudatory word element — Conceptual comparison — Distinctive character of the earlier mark — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

23.11.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 389/45
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 24 September 2015 — Primagaz v OHIM — Reeh (PRIMA KLIMA)
   (Case T-195/14) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community figurative mark PRIMA KLIMA - Earlier Community figurative mark PRIMAGAZ - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Relevant public - Similarity of goods and services - Similarity of the signs - Distinctive character of a laudatory word element - Conceptual comparison - Distinctive character of the earlier mark - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   (2015/C 389/48)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Compagnie des gaz de pétrole Primagaz SA (Paris, France) (represented by: D. Régnier, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: M. Fischer, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervening before the General Court: Gerhard Reeh (Radnice, Czech Republic) (represented by: W. Riegger, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 7 January 2014 (Case R 2304/2012-1), relating to opposition proceedings between Compagnie des gaz de pétrole Primagaz SA and Mr Gerhard Reeh.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 7 January 2014 (Case R 2304/2012-1) in so far as the Board of Appeal dismissed the action before it as regards the goods ‘apparatus for lighting, heating, drying and ventilating; activated carbon filters for ventilation purposes’;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Dismisses the action as to the remainder;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders each party to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 175, 10.6.2014.