CELEX: 62013TA0521
Language: en
Date: 2015-07-07 00:00:00
Title: Case T-521/13: Judgment of the General Court of 7 July 2015 — Alpinestars Research v OHIM — Tung Cho and Wang Yu (A ASTER) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the Community figurative mark A ASTER — Earlier Community word mark A-STARS — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Similarity of the signs — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

24.8.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 279/33
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 7 July 2015 — Alpinestars Research v OHIM — Tung Cho and Wang Yu (A ASTER)
   (Case T-521/13) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the Community figurative mark A ASTER - Earlier Community word mark A-STARS - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Similarity of the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   (2015/C 279/41)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Alpinestars Research Srl (Coste di Maser, Italy) (represented by: G. Dragotti, R. Valenti and S. Balice, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: V. Melgar, acting as Agent)
   
      Other parties to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM: Kean Tung Cho (Taichung City, Taiwan) and Ling-Yuan Wang Yu (Wuci Township, Taiwan)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 15 July 2013 (Case R 2309/2012-4), relating to opposition proceedings between Alpinestars Research Srl, on the one hand, and Kean Tung Cho and Ling-Yuan Wang Yu, on the other hand.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 15 July 2013 (Case R 2309/2012-4);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders OHIM to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 352, 30.11.2013.