CELEX: 62010TJ0420
Language: en
Date: 2012-03-27 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Second Chamber) of 27 March 2012. # Giorgio Armani SpA v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the Community figurative mark AJ AMICI JUNIOR - Earlier national figurative mark AJ ARMANI JEANS - Earlier national word mark ARMANI JUNIOR - Relative ground for refusal - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009. # Case T-420/10.

Judgment of the General Court (Second Chamber) of 27 March 2012 — Armani v OHIM – Del Prete (AJ AMICI JUNIOR)
      (Case T-420/10)
      Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the Community figurative mark AJ AMICI JUNIOR — Earlier national figurative mark AJ ARMANI JEANS — Earlier national word mark ARMANI JUNIOR — Relative ground for refusal — 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 32-35)
      
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 8 July 2010 (Case R 1360/2009-2), relating to
                  opposition proceedings between Giorgio Armani SpA and Ms Annunziata Del Prete.
               
            Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Annuls the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and
                     Designs) (OHIM) of 8 July 2010 (Case R 1360/2009-2);
                  
               
            
         
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                  	Orders OHIM and Ms Annunziata Del Prete each to pay half of the costs incurred by Giorgio Armani SpA before the Board of Appeal;
               
            
         
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                  	Orders OHIM and Ms Del Prete to bear their own costs and each to pay half of the costs incurred by Giorgio Armani before the
                     Court.