CELEX: 62010CO0156
Language: en
Date: 2010-12-15 00:00:00
Title: Order of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 15 December 2010. # Karen Goncharov v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Appeals - Community trade mark - Marks consisting of acronyms - Earlier trade mark DSB - Word sign 'DSBW' - Opposition proceedings - Relative ground for refusal - Examination of the likelihood of confusion - Visual similarity - Aural similarity - Inadmissibility - Assessment of the facts. # Case C-156/10 P.

Order of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 15 December 2010 – Goncharov v OHIM
      (Case C‑156/10 P)
      Appeal – Community trade mark – Marks consisting of acronyms – Earlier trade mark DSB – Word sign ‘DSBW’ – Opposition proceedings – Relative ground for refusal – Examination of the likelihood of confusion – Visual similarity – Aural similarity – Inadmissibility – Assessment of the facts
      Appeals – Grounds – Incorrect assessment of the facts and evidence – Inadmissibility – Review by the Court of the assessment of the facts and evidence – Possible only where the clear sense of the evidence has been distorted (Art. 256(1), second para., TFEU; Statute of the Court
         of Justice, Art. 58, first para.) (see para. 38)
      
      Re: 
      
         Appeal against the judgment of the General Court (Fourth Chamber) of 21 January 2010 in Case T-34/07 
               Goncharov
                v 
               OHIM – DSB (DSBW)
                by which the General Court dismissed the action for annulment of the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 4
                  December 2006 refusing registration of the word sign ‘DSBW’ as a Community trade mark for certain services in Classes 39,
                  41 and 43 and upholding the opposition of the proprietor of the earlier Community word mark ‘DSB’ – Likelihood of confusion
                  – Account not taken, during the examination of the likelihood of confusion, of the particularities of marks consisting of
                  acronyms – Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94.
               
            Operative part 
      
         
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                  	The appeal is dismissed. 
               
            
         
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                  	Mr Goncharov is ordered to pay the costs.