CELEX: 62013TA0604
Language: en
Date: 2015-06-03 00:00:00
Title: Case T-604/13: Judgment of the General Court of 3 June 2015 — Levi Strauss v OHIM — L&O Hunting Group (101) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community word mark 101 — Earlier Community word mark 501 — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Similarity of the signs — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

20.7.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 236/38
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 3 June 2015 — Levi Strauss v OHIM — L&O Hunting Group (101)
   (Case T-604/13) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community word mark 101 - Earlier Community word mark 501 - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Similarity of the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   (2015/C 236/50)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Levi Strauss & Co. (New Castle, California, United States) (represented initially by: V. von Bomhard and J. Schmitt, and subsequently by: V. von Bomhard, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: G. Schneider and M. Fischer, acting as Agents)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the General Court: L&O Hunting Group GmbH (Isny im Allgäu, Germany) (represented by: K. Kuck, K. Landes and G. Müllejans, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 6 September 2013 (Case R 1538/2012-2) concerning opposition proceedings between Levi Strauss & Co. and L&O Hunting Group GmbH.
   
      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 (OHIM) of 6 September 2013 (Case R 1538/2012-2) concerning opposition proceedings between Levi Strauss & Co. and L&O Hunting Group GmbH;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders OHIM and L&O Hunting Group GmbH to bear their own costs and to pay the costs incurred by Levi Strauss & Co.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 24, 25.1.2014.