CELEX: 62009TA0344
Language: en
Date: 2012-06-27 00:00:00
Title: Case T-344/09: Judgment of the General Court of 27 June 2012 — Hearst Communications, Inc., v OHIM — Vida Estética (COSMOBELLEZA) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community word mark COSMOBELLEZA — Earlier national and international word and figurative marks COSMO, COSMOPOLITAN, COSMOTEST, COSMOPOLITAN TELEVISION and THE COSMOPOLITAN SHOW — Non registered marks and trade names COSMO and COSMOPOLITAN — Relative grounds for refusal — No likelihood of confusion — No similarity between the marks — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

4.8.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 235/13
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 27 June 2012 — Hearst Communications, Inc., v OHIM — Vida Estética (COSMOBELLEZA)
   (Case T-344/09) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community word mark COSMOBELLEZA - Earlier national and international word and figurative marks COSMO, COSMOPOLITAN, COSMOTEST, COSMOPOLITAN TELEVISION and THE COSMOPOLITAN SHOW - Non registered marks and trade names COSMO and COSMOPOLITAN - Relative grounds for refusal - No likelihood of confusion - No similarity between the marks - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)
   2012/C 235/31
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Hearst Communications, Inc., (New York, United States) (represented by: A. Nordemann, C. Czychowski and A. Nordemann-Schiffel, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented: initially by C. Bartos, and subsequently by V. Melgar, acting as Agents)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the General Court: Vida Estética, SL (Barcelona, Spain) (represented by: A.I. Alejos Cutuli, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Action against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 4 June 2009 (Case R 770/2007-2) relating to opposition proceedings between Hearst Communications, Inc. and Vida Estética, SL
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Hearst Communications, Inc. to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 256, 24.10.2009.