CELEX: 62009TJ0220
Language: en
Date: 2011-07-15
Title: Judgment of the General Court (First Chamber) of 15 July 2011. # Ergo Versicherungsgruppe AG v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community word mark ERGO - Earlier Community word mark URGO - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009). # Case T-220/09.

Judgment of the General Court (First Chamber) of 15 July 2011 – Ergo Versicherungsgruppe v OHIM – Société de développement
            et de recherche industrielle (ERGO)
      (Case T-220/09)
      Community trade mark – Opposition proceedings – Application for Community word mark ERGO – Earlier Community word mark URGO – Relative ground for refusal – Likelihood of confusion – Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now 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 40/94, Art. 8(1)(b)) (paras 19-20, 39, 41-42)
      
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 20 March 2009 (Case R 515/2008-4) relating to
                  opposition proceedings between Société de développement et de recherche industrielle and Ergo Versicherungsgruppe AG.
               
            Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders Ergo Versicherungsgruppe AG to pay the costs.