CELEX: 62006TJ0111
Language: en
Date: 2007-11-21
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Third Chamber) of 21 November 2007. # Wesergold Getränkeindustrie GmbH & Co. KG v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the Community figurative mark VITAL FIT - Earlier national word mark VITAFIT - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 - Right to a fair hearing - Obligation to state reasons. # Case T-111/06.

Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Third Chamber) of 21 November 2007 – Wesergold Getränkeindustrie v OHIM – Lidl Stiftung
            (VITAL FIT)
      (Case T-111/06)
      Community trade mark – Opposition proceedings – Application for the Community figurative mark VITAL FIT – Earlier national word mark VITAFIT – Relative ground for refusal – Likelihood of confusion – Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 – Right to a fair hearing – Obligation to state reasons
      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 39, 42, 45-47)
      
      Re: 
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 16 February 2006 in Case R 3/2005-2 relating
                  to opposition proceedings between Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG and Wesergold Getränkeindustrie GmbH & Co. KG.
               
            Information relating to the case
      
               Applicant for the Community trade mark:
            
            
               Wesergold Getränkeindustrie GmbH & Co. KG
            
         
               Community trade mark sought:
            
            
               Figurative mark VITAL FIT for goods in Class 32 – Application No 1457951
            
         
               Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings:
            
            
               Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG
            
         
               Mark or sign cited in opposition:
            
            
               National word mark VITAFIT for goods in Class 32 – Application No 1050163
            
         
               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 Wesergold Getränkeindustrie GmbH & Co. KG to pay the costs.