CELEX: 62012TA0480
Language: en
Date: 2014-12-11 00:00:00
Title: Case T-480/12: Judgment of the General Court of 11 December 2014  — Coca-Cola v OHIM — Mitico (Master) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community figurative mark Master — Earlier Community figurative marks Coca-Cola and earlier national figurative mark C — Relative ground for refusal — Article 8(5) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Similarity of the signs — Evidence relating to the commercial use of the mark applied for)

9.2.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 46/45
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 11 December 2014 — Coca-Cola v OHIM — Mitico (Master)
   (Case T-480/12) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community figurative mark Master - Earlier Community figurative marks Coca-Cola and earlier national figurative mark C - Relative ground for refusal - Article 8(5) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Similarity of the signs - Evidence relating to the commercial use of the mark applied for))
   (2015/C 046/55)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: The Coca-Cola Company (Atlanta, Georgia, United States) (represented by: S. Malynicz, Barrister, D. Stone and L. Ritchie, Solicitors, and S. Baran, Barrister)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: J. Crespo Carrillo, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the General Court: Modern Industrial & Trading Investment Co. Ltd (Mitico) (Damascus, Syria) (represented by: A.-I. Malami, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 29 August 2012 (Case R 2156/2011-2) concerning opposition proceedings between The Coca-Cola Company and Modern Industrial & Trading Investment Co. Ltd (Mitico).
   
      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 29 August 2012 (Case R 2156/2011-2);
            
         
               2)
            
            
               Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by The Coca-Cola Company;
            
         
               3)
            
            
               Orders Modern Industrial & Trading Investment Co. Ltd (Mitico) to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 26, 26.1.2013.