CELEX: 62010TJ0421
Language: en
Date: 2011-10-05 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Third Chamber) of 5 October 2011. # Cooperativa Vitivinícola Arousana, S. Coop. Galega v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community word mark ROSALIA DE CASTRO - Earlier national word mark ROSALIA - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Similarity of the goods - Assessment of the conceptual similarity of the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009. # Case T-421/10.

Judgment of the General Court (Third Chamber) of 5 October 2011 – Cooperativa Vitivinícola Arousana v OHIM – Sotelo Ares (ROSALIA
            DE CASTRO)
      (Case T-421/10)
      Community trade mark – Opposition proceedings – Application for Community word mark ROSALIA DE CASTRO – Earlier national word mark ROSALIA – Relative ground for refusal – Likelihood of confusion – Similarity of the goods – Assessment of the conceptual similarity 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 27, 46-48)
      
      Re: 
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 19 July 2010 (Case R 1804/2008‑4), relating to
                  opposition proceedings between María Constantina Sotelo Ares and Cooperativa Vitivinícola Arousana, S. Coop. Galega.
               
            Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders Cooperativa Vitivinícola Arousana, S. Coop. Galega to pay the costs.