CELEX: 62009TJ0425
Language: en
Date: 2011-10-06
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) of 6 October 2011. # Honda Motor Co. Ltd v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the Community word mark BLAST - Earlier Community and Benelux word marks BLAST - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Weak distinctive character of the earlier marks. # Case T-425/09.

Judgment of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) of 6 October 2011 – Honda Motor v OHIM – Blok (BLAST)
      (Case T-425/09)
      Community trade mark – Opposition proceedings – Application for the Community word mark BLAST – Earlier Community and Benelux word marks BLAST – Relative ground for refusal – Likelihood of confusion – Article 8(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 – Weak distinctive character of the earlier marks
      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 24, 31-32)
      
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 16 July 2009 (Case R 1097/2008-1), relating to
                  opposition proceedings between Mr Hendrik Blok and Honda Motor Co. Ltd.
               
            Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
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                  	Orders Honda Motor Co. Ltd to pay the costs.