CELEX: 62017TA0546
Language: en
Date: 2018-11-15 00:00:00
Title: Case T-546/17: Judgment of the General Court of 15 November 2018 — Haufe-Lexware v EUIPO — Le Shi Holdings (Beijing) (Leshare) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the EU word mark Leshare — Earlier international word mark LEXWARE — Relative ground for refusal — No likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) — Similarity of the signs)

21.1.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 25/39
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 15 November 2018 — Haufe-Lexware v EUIPO — Le Shi Holdings (Beijing) (Leshare)
      (Case T-546/17) (1)
      
      ((EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the EU word mark Leshare - Earlier international word mark LEXWARE - Relative ground for refusal - No likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) - Similarity of the signs))
      (2019/C 25/50)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Haufe-Lexware GmbH & Co. Kg (Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany) (represented by: N. Hebeis, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: M. Fischer and D. Walicka, acting as Agents)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO: Le Shi Holdings (Beijing) Ltd (Beijing, China)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 15 June 2017 (Case R 1691/2016-4) relating to opposition proceedings between Haufe-Lexware and Le Shi Holdings (Beijing).
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Haufe-Lexware GmbH & Co. KG to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 338, 9.10.2017.