CELEX: 62007TJ0446
Language: en
Date: 2009-09-15 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance (First Chamber) of 15 September 2009. # Royal Appliance International GmbH v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Opposition procedure - Application for Community word mark Centrixx - Earlier national word mark sensixx - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009). # Case T-446/07.

Judgment of the Court of First Instance (First Chamber) of 15 September 2009 – Royal Appliance International v OHIM – BSH
            Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte (Centrixx)
      (Case T-446/07)
      Community trade mark – Opposition procedure – Application for Community word mark Centrixx – Earlier national word mark sensixx – Relative ground for refusal – Likelihood of confusion – Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now 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 40/94, Art. 8(1)(b)) (see paras 25-33, 59-64)
      
      Re: 
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 3 October 2007 (Case R 572/2006-4) concerning
                  opposition proceedings between BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH and Royal Appliance International GmbH.
               
            Information relating to the case
      
               Applicant for the Community trade mark:
            
            
               Royal Appliance International GmbH
            
         
               Community trade mark sought:
            
            
               Word mark ‘Centrixx’ for goods in Class 7 – Application No 3016227
            
         
               Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings:
            
            
               BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH
            
         
               Mark or sign cited in opposition:
            
            
               German word mark ‘sensixx’ for goods in Class 7 – Registration No 30244090
            
         
               Decision of the Opposition Division:
            
            
               Opposition dismissed
            
         
               Decision of the Board of Appeal:
            
            
               Annulment of the decision of the Opposition Division and refusal of the application for registration of the mark
            
         
      Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders Royal Appliance International GmbH to pay the costs.