CELEX: 62007TJ0106
Language: en
Date: 2008-09-10 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber) of 10 September 2008. # Alcon Inc. v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community word mark BioVisc - Earlier international word marks PROVISC and DUOVISC - Relative ground for refusal - No likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94. # Case T-106/07.

Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber) of 10 September 2008 – Alcon v OHIM – *Acri.Tec (BioVisc)
      (Case T-106/07)
      Community trade mark – Opposition proceedings – Application for Community word mark BioVisc – Earlier international word marks PROVISC and DUOVISC − Relative ground for refusal – No likelihood of confusion – Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94
      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, 43)
      
      Re: 
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 8 February 2007 (Case R 660/2006-2) concerning
                  opposition proceedings between Alcon Inc. and *Acri.Tec AG Gesellschaft für ophthalmologische Produkte.
               
            Information relating to the case
      
               Applicant for the Community trade mark:
            
            
               *Acri.Tec AG Gesellschaft für ophtalmologische Produkte
            
         
               Community trade mark sought:
            
            
               Word Mark BioVisc for goods in Class 5 – Application No 3651809
            
         
               Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings:
            
            
               Alcon Inc.
            
         
               Marks or signs relied on in support of the opposition:
            
            
               International work marks PROVISC and DUOVISC for goods in Class 5
            
         
               Decision of the Opposition Division:
            
            
               Opposition upheld in its entirety
            
         
               Decision of the Board of Appeal:
            
            
               Opposition dismissed in its entirety
            
         
      Operative part
      The Court: 
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders Alcon Inc. to pay the costs.