CELEX: 62010TJ0586
Language: en
Date: 2011-12-08
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 8 December 2011. # Aktieselskabet af 21. november 2001 v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community figurative mark ‘only givenchy’ - Earlier Community and national word marks ONLY - Relative ground for refusal - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Reputation - Article 8(5) of Regulation No 207/2009. # Case T-586/10.

Judgment of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 8 December 2011 – Aktieselskabet af 21. november 2001 v OHIM – Parfums Givenchy
            (only givenchy)
      (Case T-586/10)
      Community trade mark – Opposition proceedings – Application for Community figurative mark ‘only givenchy’ – Earlier Community and national word marks ONLY – Relative ground for refusal – Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 – Reputation – Article 8(5) of Regulation 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 23-24, 35-37, 48,
         53)
      
      Re:
      
         
               APPLICATION for annulment of the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 7 October 2010 (Case R 1556/2009-2) concerning
                  opposition proceedings between Aktieselskabet af 21. november 2001 and Parfums Givenchy SA.
               
            Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders Aktieselskabet af 21. november 2001 to pay the costs.