CELEX: 62007TJ0458
Language: en
Date: 2009-09-16 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Seventh Chamber) of 16 September 2009. # Dominio de la Vega, SL v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community figurative mark DOMINIO DE LA VEGA - Earlier Community figurative mark PALACIO DE LA VEGA - 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-458/07.

Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Seventh Chamber) of 16 September 2009 – Dominio de la Vega v OHIM – Ambrosio Velasco
            (DOMINIO DE LA VEGA)
      (Case T-458/07)
      Community trade mark – Opposition proceedings – Application for Community figurative mark DOMINIO DE LA VEGA – Earlier Community figurative mark PALACIO DE LA VEGA – 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)) (see paras 26-29, 45-55)
      
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 3 October 2007 (Case R 1431/2006-2) relating
                  to opposition proceedings between Ambrosio Velasco, SA and Dominio de la Vega, SL.
               
            Information relating to the case
      
               Applicant for the Community trade mark:
            
            
               Dominio de la Vega, SL
            
         
               Community trade mark sought:
            
            
               Figurative mark DOMINIO DE LA VEGA for goods in Classes 33, 42 and 43 – Application No 2789576
            
         
               Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings:
            
            
               Ambrosio Velasco, SA
            
         
               Mark or sign cited in opposition:
            
            
               Figurative Community trade mark PALACIO DE LA VEGA for goods in Class 33 – Application No 78147
            
         
               Decision of the Opposition Division:
            
            
               Opposition upheld for all those goods, in Class 33, against which it was directed, and rejection of the application for those
                  goods
               
            
         
               Decision of the Board of Appeal:
            
            
               Appeal dismissed
            
         
      Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders Dominio de la Vega, SL to pay the costs.