CELEX: 62010TA0394
Language: en
Date: 2013-12-05 00:00:00
Title: Case T-394/10: Judgment of the General Court of 5 December 2013 — Grebenshikova v OHIM — Volvo Trademark Holding (SOLVO) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the Community figurative mark SOLVO — Earlier Community word mark VOLVO — Relative ground for refusal — No likelihood of confusion — No similarity between the signs — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

25.1.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 24/18
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 5 December 2013 — Grebenshikova v OHIM — Volvo Trademark Holding (SOLVO)
   (Case T-394/10) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the Community figurative mark SOLVO - Earlier Community word mark VOLVO - Relative ground for refusal - No likelihood of confusion - No similarity between the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)
   2014/C 24/30
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Elena Grebenshikova (St Petersburg, Russia) (represented by: M. Björkenfeldt, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: A. Folliard-Monguiral, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the General Court: Volvo Trademark Holding AB (Gothenburg, Sweden) (represented: initially by T. Dolde, V. von Bomhard and A. Renck, lawyers, and subsequently by V. von Bomhard, A. Renck, and I. Fowler, Solicitor)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 9 June 2010 (Case R 861/2010-1), relating to opposition proceedings between Volvo Trademark Holding AB and Ms Elena Grebenshikova.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 9 June 2010 in Case R 861/2010-1;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders OHIM to pay, in addition to its own costs, two thirds of the costs incurred by Ms Elena Grebenshikova;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders Volvo Trademark Holding AB to pay, in addition to its own costs, one third of the costs incurred by Ms Grebenshikova.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 301, 6.11.2010.