CELEX: 62010TJ0522
Language: en
Date: 2012-01-17
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Second Chamber) of 17 January 2012. # Hell Energy Magyarország kft v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the Community figurative mark HELL - Earlier Community word mark HELLA - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Similarity of the goods and of the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009. # Case T-522/10.

Judgment of the General Court (Second Chamber) of 17 January 2012 – Hell Energy Magyarország v OHIM – Hansa Mineralbrunnen
            (HELL)
      (Case T-522/10)
      Community trade mark – Opposition proceedings – Application for the Community figurative mark HELL – Earlier Community word mark HELLA – Relative ground for refusal – Likelihood of confusion – Similarity of the goods and of the signs – Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) 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 29, 33-34, 67)
      
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 5 August 2010 (Case R 1517/2009-1), relating to opposition
                  proceedings between Hansa Mineralbrunnen GmbH and Hell Energy Magyarország.
               
            Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders Hell Energy Magyarország kft to pay the costs.