CELEX: 62007TJ0413
Language: en
Date: 2009-02-11 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber) of 11 February 2009. # Bayern Innovativ - Bayerische Gesellschaft für Innovation und Wissenstransfer mbH v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the figurative Community trade mark LifeScience - Earlier Community trade mark Life Sciences Partners - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94. # Case T-413/07.

Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber) of 11 February 2009 – Bayern Innovativ v OHIM – Life Sciences Partners
            Perstock (LifeScience)
      (Case T-413/07)
      Community trade mark – Opposition proceedings − Application for the figurative Community trade mark LifeScience − Earlier Community trade mark Life
         Sciences Partners − Relative ground 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 29, 58)
      
      Re: 
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 2 August 2007 (Case R 1545/2006‑1), relating to
                  opposition proceedings between Life Sciences Partners Perstock NV and Bayern Innovativ – Bayerische Gesellschaft für Innovation
                  und Wissenstransfer mbH.
               
            Information relating to the case
      
               Applicant for the Community trade mark:
            
            
               Bayern Innovativ – Bayerische Gesellschaft für Innovation und Wissenstransfer mbH
            
         
               Community trade mark sought:
            
            
               Figurative mark compromising a representation in colour of a DNA spiral, an oval, a grill and, in the lower part, the word
                  elements LifeScience, designating goods and services in Classes 16, 35, 36, 41 and 42 – Application No 3585957
               
            
         
               Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in support of the opposition proceedings:
            
            
               Life Sciences Partners Perstock NV
            
         
               Mark or sign cited in opposition:
            
            
               Community figurative mark comprising a representation of a naked woman surrounded by a DNA spiral and containing the word
                  elements Life Sciences Partners, for services in Classes 35 and 36 – Application No 2136026
               
            
         
               Decision of the Opposition Division:
            
            
               Opposition upheld.
            
         
               Decision of the Board of Appeal:
            
            
               Appeal dismissed
            
         
      Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders Bayern Innovativ – Bayerische Gesellschaft für Innovation und Wissenstransfer mbH to pay the costs.