CELEX: 62010TA0205
Language: en
Date: 2012-01-31 00:00:00
Title: Case T-205/10: Judgment of the General Court of 31 January 2012 — Cervecería Modelo v OHIM — Plataforma Continental (LA VICTORIA DE MEXICO) (Community trade mark — Opposition procedure — Application for Community word mark LA VICTORIA DE MEXICO — Earlier Community figurative mark containing the word element ‘victoria’ and earlier national word mark VICTORIA — Registration refused in part — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Similarity of the signs — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

10.3.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 73/27
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 31 January 2012 — Cervecería Modelo v OHIM — Plataforma Continental (LA VICTORIA DE MEXICO)
   (Case T-205/10) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition procedure - Application for Community word mark LA VICTORIA DE MEXICO - Earlier Community figurative mark containing the word element ‘victoria’ and earlier national word mark VICTORIA - Registration refused in part - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Similarity of the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)
   2012/C 73/54
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Cervecería Modelo, SA de CV (Mexico, Mexico) (represented by: C. Lema Devesa, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: J. Crespo Carrillo, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM: Plataforma Continental, SL (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: P. González-Bueno Catalán de Ocón, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 5 March 2010 (Case R 322/2009-2) in relation to opposition proceedings between Plataforma Continental, SL and Cervecería Modelo, SA de CV.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Cervecería Modelo, SA de CV to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 179, 3.7.2010.