Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2012:594
Date: 2012-11-13
Language of the case: English
Court formation: Fourth Chamber
Subject matter: Trade marks;Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
Procedure: Action for annulment - unfounded
Origin: Germany

Judgment of the General Court of 13 November 2012 - tesa v OHIM - Superquímica (tesa TACK) (Case T-555/11)  (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community figurative mark tesa TACK - Earlier national figurative mark TACK Ceys - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Similarity of the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009) Language of the case: English Parties Applicant: tesa SE (Hamburg, Germany) (represented by: F. Schwab, lawyer) Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: A. Folliard-Monguiral and Ó. Mondéjar Ortuño, acting as Agents) Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the General Court: La Superquímica, SA (L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain) (represented by: A. Canela Giménez, lawyer) Re: Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 5 July 2011 (Case R 866/2010-1) relating to opposition proceedings between La Superquímica, SA and tesa SE. Operative part of the judgment The Court: 1. Dismisses the action; 2. Orders tesa SE to pay the costs. ____________ 1 - OJ C 6, 7.1.2012.