Passionate about IP! Since June 2003 the IPKat weblog has covered copyright, patent, trade mark, info-tech and privacy/confidentiality issues from a mainly UK and European perspective. The team is David Brophy, Catherine Lee, Merpel, Jeremy Phillips, Nicola Searle, Annsley Merelle Ward and Neil J. Wilkof. You're welcome to read, post comments and participate in our community. You can email the Kats here For the half-year to 31 December 2012, the IPKat's regular team is supplemented by contributions from guest bloggers Robert Cumming, Eleonora Rosati and Kate Manning. Watch out, too, for the AdvoKat ... Incidentally, two Kats are currently on blogging sabbaticals. They are Birgit Clark and Matt Fisher. Tuesday, 18 September 2012 This Kat loves beer and burgers, and in an ideal world, a burger and a beer at the same time. So it was with a slightly distracted mind that the General Court's recent decision in Case T-460/11 Scandic Distilleries SA v OHIM finding a likelihood of confusion between marks BRGER and Brgerbru was considered. Scandic Distilleries SA, established in Bihor (Romania), contested a decision of the Second Board of Appeal that denied registration of the figurative sign BRGER as a Community trade mark for goods and services in Classes 32 (Beers) and 35 ( Burgers Advertising; business management) on the ground of a likelihood of confusion with the earlier Community word mark Brgerbru, also for goods in Class 32. The applicant only raised one plea in law, alleging breach of art. 8(1)(b) Reg (EC) No 207/2009 on