CELEX: 62007TA0010
Language: en
Date: 2008-09-17 00:00:00
Title: Case T-10/07: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 17 September 2008 — FVB v 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)

8.11.2008   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 285/38
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 17 September 2008 — FVB v OHIM
   (Case T-10/07) (1)
   
   (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)
   (2008/C 285/68)
   Language of the case: German
   Parties
   
      Applicant: FVB Gesellschaft für Finanz- und Versorgungsberatung mbH (Osnabrück, Germany) (represented by: P. Koehler, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: B. Schmidt, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM intervening before the Court of First Instance: FVD Gesellschaft für Finanzplanung und Vermögensberatung Deutschland mbH, formerly FVD Gesellschaft für Finanzplanung und Vorsorgemanagement Deutschland mbH (Hamburg, Germany) (represented: first by J. Mattes and P. Heigl, lawyers)
   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.
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders FVB Gesellschaft für Finanz- und Versorgungsberatung mbH to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 56, 10.3.2007.