CELEX: 62012TA0197
Language: en
Date: 2013-07-11 00:00:00
Title: Case T-197/12: Judgment of the General Court of 11 July 2013 — Metropolis Inmobiliarias y Restauraciones v OHIM — MIP Metro (METRO) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the Community figurative mark METRO — Earlier Community figurative mark GRUPOMETROPOLIS — Relative ground for refusal — No likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Right to a fair hearing — Article 6 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms — Articles 75 and 76 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

31.8.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 252/30
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 11 July 2013 — Metropolis Inmobiliarias y Restauraciones v OHIM — MIP Metro (METRO)
   (Case T-197/12) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the Community figurative mark METRO - Earlier Community figurative mark GRUPOMETROPOLIS - Relative ground for refusal - No likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Right to a fair hearing - Article 6 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms - Articles 75 and 76 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)
   2013/C 252/48
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Metropolis Inmobiliarias y Restauraciones (Barcelona, Spain) (represented by: J. Carbonell Callicó, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: A. Poch, Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the General Court: MIP Metro Group Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG (Düsseldorf, Germany) (represented by: J.-C. Plate and R. Kaase, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 1 March 2012 (Case R 2440/2010-1), relating to opposition proceedings between Metropolis Inmobiliarias y Restauraciones, SL and MIP Metro Group Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Metropolis Inmobiliarias y Restauraciones, SL to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 209, 14.7.2012.