Judgment — ECLI:EU:C:2015:420
Date: 2015-06-25
Language of the case: Dutch
Court formation: Tenth Chamber
Subject matter: Trade marks;Intellectual, industrial and commercial property;Fundamental rights;Charter of Fundamental Rights
Procedure: Reference for a preliminary ruling
Origin: Belgium

Summary — Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber), 25 June 2015 1. Community trade mark — Effects of the Community trade mark — Rights conferred by a trade mark — Right to prohibit use of the trade mark — Use of an identical or similar sign covering identical or similar products or services — Likelihood of confusion with the mark — Criteria for assessment (Council Regulation No 207/2009, Art. 9(1)(b)) 2. Community trade mark — Effects of the Community trade mark — Rights conferred by a trade mark — Right to prohibit the use of the trade mark — Use of an identical or similar sign covering identical or similar products or services — Likelihood of confusion with the mark — Criteria for assessment — Signs at issue containing visually similar Arabic words in Latin and Arabic script (Council Regulation No 207/2009, Art. 9(1)(b)) 1. See the text of the decision. (see paras 21, 23) 2. Article 9(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009 on the Community trade mark must be interpreted as meaning that, in order to assess the likelihood of confusion that may exist between a Community trade mark and a sign which cover the same or similar goods and which both contain a dominant Arabic word in Latin and Arabic script, those words being visually similar, in circumstances where the relevant public for the Community mark and for the sign at issue has a basic knowledge of written Arabic, the meaning and pronunciation of those words must be taken into account. (see para. 26, operative part)