CELEX: 62009TJ0371
Language: en
Date: 2012-05-22 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Third Chamber) of 22 May 2012. # Retractable Technologies, Inc. v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Opposition Procedure - Application for figurative Community mark FT - Earlier national word mark RTH - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009. # Case T-371/09.

Judgment of the General Court (Third Chamber) of 22 May 2012 —Retractable Technologies v OHIM — Abbott Laboratories (RT)(Case T‑371/09)
      Community trade mark — Opposition Procedure — Application for figurative Community mark RT — Earlier national word mark RTH — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — 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, 28, 43-45)
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 24 July 2009 (Case R 1234/2008‑4) concerning
                  opposition proceedings between Abbott Laboratories and Retractable Technologies, Inc.
               
            Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
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                  	Orders Retractable Technologies, Inc. to pay the costs.