CELEX: 62009TA0422
Language: en
Date: 2011-05-25 00:00:00
Title: Case T-422/09: Judgment of the General Court of 25 May 2011 — São Paulo Alpargatas v OHIM — Fischer (BAHIANAS LAS ORIGINALES) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community figurative mark BAHIANAS LAS ORIGINALES — Earlier Community and national figurative trade marks havaianas and earlier national word mark HAVAIANAS — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Similarity of signs — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

9.7.2011   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 204/22
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 25 May 2011 — São Paulo Alpargatas v OHIM — Fischer (BAHIANAS LAS ORIGINALES)
   (Case T-422/09) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community figurative mark BAHIANAS LAS ORIGINALES - Earlier Community and national figurative trade marks havaianas and earlier national word mark HAVAIANAS - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Similarity of signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)
   2011/C 204/38
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: São Paulo Alpargatas, SA (São Paolo, Brazil) (represented by: P. Merino Baylos and A. Velázquez Ibáñez, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: J. Crespo Carillo, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM: Enrique Fischer (Buenos Aires, Argentina) (represented by: initially E. Rasche Aparicio, then M. de Justo Bailey, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 17 August 2009 (Case R 1477/2008-2), concerning opposition proceedings between São Paulo Alpargatas, SA and Enrique Fischer.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 17 August 2009 (Case R 1477/2008-2);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders OHIM to pay its own costs and the costs incurred by São Paulo Alpargatas, SA;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders Enrique Fischer to pay his own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 297, 5.12.2009.