CELEX: 62007TJ0010
Language: en
Date: 2008-09-17 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Eighth Chamber) of 17 September 2008. # FVB Gesellschaft für Finanz- und Versorgungsberatung mbH v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community word mark FVB - Earlier national word mark FVD - Relative grounds for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94. # Case T-10/07.

Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Eighth Chamber) of 17 September 2008 – FVB v OHIM – FVD (FVB)
      (Case T-10/07)
      Community trade mark – Opposition proceedings – Application for Community word mark FVB – Earlier national word mark FVD – Relative grounds 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 51-57)
      
      Re: 
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 6 November 2006 (Case R 1343/2005-4), relating
                  to opposition proceedings between FVD Gesellschaft für Finanzplanung und Vorsorgemanagement Deutschland mbH and FVB Gesellschaft
                  für Finanz- und Versorgungsberatung mbH.
               
            Information relating to the case
      
               Applicant for the Community trade mark:
            
            
               FVB Gesellschaft für Finanz- und Versorgungsberatung mbH
            
         
               Community trade mark sought:
            
            
               Word mark FVB for services in Classes 35 and 36 – Application No 2126175
            
         
               Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings:
            
            
               FVD Gesellschaft für Finanzplanung und Vermögensberatung Deutschland mbH (formerly FVD Gesellschaft für Finanzplanung und
                  Vorsorgemanagement Deutschland mbH)
               
            
         
               Mark or sign cited in opposition:
            
            
               National word mark FVD for services in Class 36.
            
         
               Decision of the Opposition Division:
            
            
               Opposition upheld; partial rejection of the application for registration
            
         
               Decision of the Board of Appeal:
            
            
               Appeal dismissed
            
         
      Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders FVB Gesellschaft für Finanz- und Versorgungsberatung mbH to pay the costs.