CELEX: 62010TA0477
Language: en
Date: 2011-11-30 00:00:00
Title: Case T-477/10: Judgment of the General Court of 30 November 2011 SE — Blusen Stenau v OHIM (Sport Eybl & Sports Experts (SE© SPORTS EQUIPMENT) (Community trade mark — Opposition procedure — Application for Community figurative mark SE© SPORTS EQUIPMENT — Prior national word mark SE So Easy — Relative grounds for refusal — Similarity of the signs — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009)

28.1.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 25/49
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 30 November 2011 SE — Blusen Stenau v OHIM (Sport Eybl & Sports Experts (SE© SPORTS EQUIPMENT)
      (Case T-477/10) (1)
      
      (Community trade mark - Opposition procedure - Application for Community figurative mark SE© SPORTS EQUIPMENT - Prior national word mark SE So Easy - Relative grounds for refusal - Similarity of the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009)
      (2012/C 25/95)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: SE — Blusen Stenau GmbH (Gronau, Germany) (represented by: O. Bischof, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: A. Pohlmann, Agent)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM: Sport Eybl & Sports Experts GmbH (Wels, Austria) (represented by: M. Pachinger and S. Fürst., lawyers)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 22 July 2010 (Case R 139372009-1) concerning an opposition procedure between SE — Blusen Stenau GmbH and Sport Eybl & Sports Experts GmbH.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Annuls the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 22 July 2010 (Case R 139372009-1);
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and pay the costs incurred by SE — Blusen Stenau GmbH;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders Sport Eybl & Sports Experts GmbH to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 346, 18.12.2010.