Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| 13.6.2016 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 211/45 |

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Judgment of the General Court of 28 April 2016 — Zehnder Group International v EUIPO — Stiebel Eltron (comfotherm)

(Case T-267/14) [(1)](#ntr1-C_2016211EN.01004501-E0001)

((EU trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - EU word mark comfotherm - Earlier national word mark KOMFOTHERM - Relative ground for refusal - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Likelihood of confusion - Similarity of the goods - Relevant public - Interdependence of factors))

(2016/C 211/56)

Language of the case: German

Parties

Applicant: Zehnder Group International AG (Gränichen, Switzerland) (represented by: J. Krenzel, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) (represented by: initially A. Pohlmann and subsequently S. Hanne, acting as Agents)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Stiebel Eltron GmbH & Co. KG (Holzminden, Germany) (represented by: J. Eberhardt, H. Förster and Y. Holderied, lawyers)

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 21 February 2014 (Case R 1318/2013-4), relating to invalidity proceedings between Stiebel Eltron GmbH & Co. KG and Zehnder Group International AG.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

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| 1. | Dismisses the action; |

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| 2. | Orders Zehnder Group International AG to pay the costs. |

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