CELEX: 62010TA0304
Language: en
Date: 2011-10-18 00:00:00
Title: Case T-304/10: Judgment of the General Court of 18 October 2011 — dm-drogerie markt v OHIM — Semtee (caldea) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for registration of the Community figurative mark caldea — Earlier international word mark BALEA — Relative ground for refusal — No likelihood of confusion — No similarity of the signs — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

26.11.2011   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 347/30
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 18 October 2011 — dm-drogerie markt v OHIM — Semtee (caldea)
   (Case T-304/10) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for registration of the Community figurative mark caldea - Earlier international word mark BALEA - Relative ground for refusal - No likelihood of confusion - No similarity of the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)
   2011/C 347/49
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: dm-drogerie markt GmbH & Co. KG (Karlsruhe, Germany) (represented by: O. Bludovsky and P. Hiller, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: P. Geroulakos, Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the General Court: Semtee (Escaldes Engornay, Andorra) (represented by: É. Guissart, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   ACTION brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 29 April 2010 (Case R 899/2009-1), relating to opposition proceedings between dm-drogerie markt GmbH & Co. KG and Semtee.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders dm-drogerie markt GmbH & Co. KG to pay the costs incurred by the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM), in addition to bearing its own costs;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders each party to bear its own costs relating to the intervention of Semtee.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 260, 25.9.2010.