CELEX: 62014TA0526
Language: en
Date: 2015-11-19 00:00:00
Title: Case T-526/14: Judgment of the General Court of 19 November 2015 — Matratzen Concord v OHIM — Barranco Rodriguez and Barranco Schnitzler (Matratzen Concord) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for registration of the Community word mark Matratzen Concord — Earlier national word marks MATRATZEN — Relative ground of refusal — Proof of use — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) and Article 42(2) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

18.1.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 16/34
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 19 November 2015 — Matratzen Concord v OHIM — Barranco Rodriguez and Barranco Schnitzler (Matratzen Concord)
   (Case T-526/14) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for registration of the Community word mark Matratzen Concord - Earlier national word marks MATRATZEN - Relative ground of refusal - Proof of use - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) and Article 42(2) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   (2016/C 016/42)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Matratzen Concord GmbH (Cologne, Germany) (represented by: I. Selting, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: G. Schneider and D. Botis, acting as Agents)
   
      Other parties to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervening before the General Court: Mariano Barranco Rodriguez (Sant Just Desvern, Spain) and Pablo Barranco Schnitzler (Sant Just Desvern) (represented by: J. Iglesias Monravá, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 9 April 2014 (Case R 1523/2013-1) relating to opposition proceedings between, on the one hand, Mariano Barranco Rodriguez and Pablo Barranco Schnitzler and, on the other hand, Matratzen Concord GmbH.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Matratzen Concord GmbH to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 303, 8.9.2014.