Order of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 10 October 2012 — ara v OHIM(Case C-611/11 P)
Appeal – Community trade mark – Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 – Article 8(1)(b) – International registration designating the European Community – Figurative mark A with two triangular motifs – Earlier national word mark A – Relative grounds for refusal – No likelihood of confusion
1.                     Appeals – Grounds – Inadequate or contradictory grounds – Admissibility (see para. 35)
2.                     Appeals – Grounds – Incorrect assessment of the facts and evidence – Inadmissibility – Review by the Court of Justice of the
assessment of the facts and evidence – Possible only where the clear sense of the evidence has been distorted (Art. 256(1)
TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.) (see para. 41)
3.                     Appeals – Grounds – Mere repetition of the pleas and arguments put forward before the General Court – Error of law relied
on not identified – Inadmissibility (Art. 256(1) TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.; Rules of Procedure
of the Court, Art. 112(1)(c)) (see para. 46)
4.                     Appeals – Grounds – Plea submitted for the first time in the context of the appeal – Inadmissibility (Statute of the Court
of Justice, Art. 51) (see para. 58)
Re:
Appeal brought against the judgment of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) of 22 September 2011 in Case T-174/10
ara
v
OHIM — Allrounder (A with two triangular motifs)
, by which the General Court rejected the action brought for the annulment of the decision of the First Board of Appeal of
OHIM of 26 January 2010 (Case R 481/2009-1), relating to opposition proceedings between ara and Allrounder — Article 8(1)(b)
of Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 of 26 February 2009 on the Community trade mark (OJ 2009 L 78, p. 1) — Figurative mark
A with two triangular motifs — Opposition by the proprietor of the national word mark ‘A’ — Likelihood of confusion between
two marks — Erroneous assessment of distinctive character.
Operative part
The Court:
1.
Dismisses the appeal;
2.
Orders ara AG to pay the costs.