CELEX: 62012TA0568
Language: en
Date: 2014-04-04 00:00:00
Title: Case T-568/12: Judgment of the General Court of 4 April 2014  — Golam v OHIM — Derby Cycle Werke (FOCUS extreme) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the Community figurative mark FOCUS extreme — Earlier national word mark FOCUS — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

26.5.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 159/23
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 4 April 2014 — Golam v OHIM — Derby Cycle Werke (FOCUS extreme)
   (Case T-568/12) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the Community figurative mark FOCUS extreme - Earlier national word mark FOCUS - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   2014/C 159/31
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Sofia Golam (Athens, Greece) (represented by: N. Trovas, 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, intervener before the General Court: Derby Cycle Werke GmbH (Cloppenburg, Germany) (represented by: U. Gedert, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 16 October 2012 (Case R 2327/2011-4), relating to opposition proceedings between Derby Cycle Werke GmbH and Sofia Golam.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Sofia Golam to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 63, 2.3.2013.