CELEX: 62010TJ0519
Language: en
Date: 2012-06-13 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Sixth Chamber) of 13 June 2012. # Kabushiki Kaisha Seikoh Giken v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - International registration - Application for territorial extension of the protection - Figurative mark SG SEIKOH GIKEN - Earlier Community word mark SEIKO - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009. # Case T-519/10.

Judgment of the General Court (Sixth Chamber) of 13 June 2012 —Seikoh Giken v OHIM — Seiko Holdings (SG SEIKOH GIKEN)(Case T-519/10)
      Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — International registration — Application for territorial extension of the protection — Figurative mark SG SEIKOH GIKEN — Earlier Community word mark SEIKO — 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 — Figurative mark SG SEIKOH GIKEN and verbal mark SEIKO (Council Regulation No 207/2009, Art. 8(1)(b)) (see paras 36, 40)
      Re:
      
         
               APPLICATION for annulment of the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 12 August 2010 (Case R 1553/2009-1), relating
                  to opposition proceedings between Seiko Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha and Kabushiki Kaisha Seikoh Giken.
               
            Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
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                  	Orders Kabushiki Kaisha Seikoh Giken to pay the costs.