Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

**Judgment of the General Court (Third Chamber) of 30 November 2011 – SE-Blusen Stenau v OHIM – Sport Eybl & Sports Experts
(SE© SPORTS EQUIPMENT)**

**(Case T-477/10)**

Community trade mark – Opposition procedure – Application for Community figurative mark SE© SPORTS EQUIPMENT – Prior national word mark SE So Easy – Relative grounds for refusal – Similarity of the signs – Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009

Community trade mark – Definition and acquisition of the Community trade mark – Relative grounds for refusal – Opposition by the proprietor of an earlier identical or similar mark registered for identical or similar goods or services
– Likelihood of confusion with the earlier mark (Council Regulation No 207/2009, Art. 8(1)(b)) (see paras 19, 23, 66, 71-72)

**Re:**

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|  | ACTION brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 22 July 2010 (Case R 1393/2009-1) concerning an opposition procedure between SE-Blusen Stenau GmbH and Sport Eybl & Sports Experts GmbH. |

**Operative part**

The Court:

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| 1. |  | Annuls the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 22 July 2010 (Case R 1393/2009-1); |

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| 2. |  | Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and pay the costs incurred by SE-Blusen Stenau GmbH; |

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| 3. |  | Orders Sport Eybl & Sports Experts GmbH to bear its own costs. |

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