Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| 24.6.2014 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 194/23 |

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Judgment of the General Court of 8 May 2014 — Pedro Group v OHIM — Cortefiel (PEDRO)

(Case T-38/13)[(1)](#ntr1-C_2014194EN.01002302-E0001)

((Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the Community word mark PEDRO - Earlier Community figurative mark Pedro del Hierro - Partial refusal to register - Relative grounds for refusal - Genuine use of the earlier mark - Highly distinctive character of the earlier mark - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))

2014/C 194/30

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Pedro Group Pte Ltd (Singapore, Singapore) (represented by: B. Brandreth, Barrister)

Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: M. Vuijst and J. Crespo Carrillo, acting as Agents)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the General Court: Cortefiel, SA (Madrid, Spain) (represented initially by H. Mosback, P. López Ronda, G. Macias Bonilla and G. Marín Raigal, and subsequently by P. López Ronda, G. Macias Bonilla and G. Marín Raigal, lawyers)

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 26 November 2012 (Case R 271/2011-4), relating to opposition proceedings between Cortefiel, SA, and Pedro Group Pte Ltd.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

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| 1. | Dismisses the action; |

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| 2. | Orders Pedro Group Pte Ltd to pay the costs. |

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