CELEX: 62014CN0020
Language: en
Date: 2014-01-17 00:00:00
Title: Case C-20/14: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundespatentgericht (Germany) lodged on 17 January 2014  — BGW Marketing- & Management-Service GmbH v Bodo Scholz

28.4.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 129/11
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundespatentgericht (Germany) lodged on 17 January 2014 — BGW Marketing- & Management-Service GmbH v Bodo Scholz
   (Case C-20/14)
   2014/C 129/14
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Bundespatentgericht
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: BGW Marketing- & Management-Service GmbH
   
      Defendant: Bodo Scholz
   
      Question referred
   
   Must Article 4(1)(b) of Directive 2008/95/EC (1) be interpreted as meaning that, in the case of identical and similar goods and services, there may be taken to be a likelihood of confusion for the public if a distinctive sequence of letters which dominates the earlier word/figurative trade mark of average distinctiveness is made use of in a third party’s later mark in such a way that the sequence of letters is supplemented by a descriptive combination of words relating to it which explains the sequence of latters as an abbreviation of the descriptive words?
   
      (1)  Directive 2008/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks; OJ 2008 L 299, p. 25.