CELEX: 62010TJ0249
Language: en
Date: 2012-01-17
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Second Chamber) of 17 January 2012. # Kitzinger & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG) v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the Community figurative mark KICO - Earlier national figurative mark and Community word mark KIKA - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009. # Case T-249/10.

Judgment of the General Court (Second Chamber) of 17 January 2012 – Kitzinger v OHIM – MDR and ZDF (KICO)
      (Case T-249/10)
      Community trade mark – Opposition proceedings – Application for the Community figurative mark KICO – Earlier national figurative mark and Community word mark KIKA – 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 20, 48)
      
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 25 March 2010 (Case R 1388/2008-4), relating
                  to opposition proceedings between, on the one hand, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk and Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen and, on the other
                  hand, Kitzinger & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG).
               
            Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
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                  	Orders Kitzinger & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG) to pay the costs.