CELEX: 62010TJ0197
Language: en
Date: 2011-09-09
Title: Judgment of the General Court (First Chamber) of 9 September 2011. # Bundesverband der Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken e.V. (BVR) v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Opposition Proceedings - Application for Community figurative mark Austria Leasing Gesellschaft m.b.H Mitglied der Raiffeisen-Bankengruppe Österreich - Earlier national figurative mark Raiffeisenbank - No likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009. # Case T-197/10.

Judgment of the General Court (First Chamber) of 9 September 2011 – BVR v OHIM – Austria Leasing (Austria Leasing Gesellschaft
            m.b.H. Mitglied der Raiffeisen-Bankengruppe Österreich)
      (Case T-197/10)
      Community trade mark – Opposition proceedings – Application for Community figurative mark Austria Leasing Gesellschaft m.b.H. Mitglied der Raiffeisen‑Bankengruppe Österreich
         – Earlier national figurative mark Raiffeisenbank – No likelihood of confusion – 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 207/2009, Art. 8(1)(b)) (see paras 19, 22, 37, 42, 50,
         63)
      
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION for annulment of the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 3 February 2010 (Case R 248/2009-1), relating
                  to opposition proceedings between the Bundesverband der Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken eV (BVR) and Austria Leasing
                  GmbH.
               
            Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders the Bundesverband der Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken eV (BVR) to pay the costs.