Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| 25.1.2016 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 27/48 |

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Judgment of the General Court of 8 December 2015 — Compagnie générale des établissements Michelin v OHIM — Continental Reifen Deutschland (XKING)

(Case T-525/14)[(1)](#ntr1-C_2016027EN.01004801-E0001)

((Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community figurative mark XKING - Earlier national figurative mark X - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))

(2016/C 027/59)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Compagnie générale des établissements Michelin (Clermont-Ferrand, France) (represented initially by L. Carlini, and subsequently by E. Carrillo, lawyers)

Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: M. Fischer, acting as Agent)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the General Court: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH (Hanover, Germany) (represented by: S. Gillert, K. Vanden Bossche, B. Köhn-Gerdes and J. Schumacher, lawyers)

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 5 May 2014 (Case R 1522/2013-4), relating to opposition proceedings between Compagnie générale des établissements Michelin and Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

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| 1. | Annuls the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 5 May 2014 (Case R 1522/2013-4); |

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| 2. | Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Compagnie générale des établissements Michelin; |

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| 3. | Orders Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH to bear its own costs. |

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