CELEX: 62008TA0449
Language: en
Date: 2011-10-18 00:00:00
Title: Case T-449/08: Judgment of the General Court of 18 October 2011 — SLV Elektronik v OHIM — Jiménez Muñoz (LINE) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the Community figurative mark LINE — Earlier national word and figurative marks Line — Partial refusal to register — Relative grounds for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))

26.11.2011   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 347/27
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 18 October 2011 — SLV Elektronik v OHIM — Jiménez Muñoz (LINE)
   (Case T-449/08) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the Community figurative mark LINE - Earlier national word and figurative marks Line - Partial refusal to register - Relative grounds for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   2011/C 347/41
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: SLV Elektronik GmbH (Übach-Palenberg, Germany) (represented by: C. König, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: R. Manea, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM: Angel Jiménez Muñoz (Gelida, Spain)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 18 July 2008 (case R 759/2007-4), relating to opposition proceedings between Angel Jiménez Muñoz and SLV Elektronik GmbH
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               annuls the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 18 July 2008 (case R 759/2007-4) in so far as concerns the goods ‘mains-operated lights, lighting apparatus and installations, stage effects lighting apparatus; electric lamps; individual parts for the aforesaid goods’ in Class 11;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               orders OHIM to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 327, 20.12.2008.