CELEX: 62009CB0448
Language: en
Date: 2010-06-30 00:00:00
Title: Case C-448/09 P: Order of the Court of 30 June 2010 — Royal Appliance International GmbH v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs), BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH (Appeal — Community trade mark — Regulation (EC) No 40/94 — Article 8(1)(b) — Earlier mark ‘sensixx’ — Word mark ‘Centrixx’ — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Application for revocation of an earlier mark — Proceedings pending before the national courts — Request for a stay of the proceedings before the General Court)

23.10.2010   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 288/17
            
         
      Order of the Court of 30 June 2010 — Royal Appliance International GmbH v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs), BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH
      (Case C-448/09 P) (1)
      
      (Appeal - Community trade mark - Regulation (EC) No 40/94 - Article 8(1)(b) - Earlier mark ‘sensixx’ - Word mark ‘Centrixx’ - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Application for revocation of an earlier mark - Proceedings pending before the national courts - Request for a stay of the proceedings before the General Court)
      (2010/C 288/27)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Appellant: Royal Appliance International GmbH (represented by: K.-J. Michaeli and M. Schork, Rechtsanwälte)
      
         Other parties to the proceedings: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: S. Schäffner, acting as Agent), BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbH (represented by: S. Biagosch, Rechtsanwalt)
      
         Re:
      
      Appeal brought against the judgment of the Court of First Instance (First Chamber) of 15 September 2009 in Case T-446/09 Royal Appliance International v OHIM — BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte, by which the Court of First Instance dismissed the action for annulment brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 3 October 2007, rejecting the registration of the word mark ‘Centrixx’ as a Community trade mark for certain goods in Class 7, by granting the opposition by the proprietor of the national word mark ‘sensixx’ — Failure to stay the proceedings while awaiting the resolution of the dispute pending before the national courts concerning the application for revocation of the earlier mark — Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 — Likelihood of confusion between two marks
      
         Operative part of the order
      
      
                  1.
               
               
                  The appeal is dismissed.
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Royal Appliance International GmbH is ordered to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 24, 30.1.2010.