CELEX: 62009TJ0061
Language: en
Date: 2011-12-13 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Second Chamber) of 13 December 2011. # Meica Ammerländische Fleischwarenfabrik Fritz Meinen GmbH & Co. KG v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community word mark Schinken King - Earlier national word mark King - Earlier national and Community word marks Curry King - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Duty to state reasons - Article 73 of Regulation No 40/94 (now Article 75 of Regulation No 207/2009). # Case T-61/09.

Judgment of the General Court (Second Chamber) of 13 December 2011 – Meica v OHIM – Bösinger Fleischwaren (Schinken King)
      (Case T-61/09)
      Community trade mark – Opposition proceedings – Application for Community word mark Schinken King – Earlier national word mark King – Earlier national and Community word marks Curry King – Relative ground 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) – Duty to state reasons – Article 73 of Regulation No 40/94 (now Article 75 of Regulation 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 (Council Regulation No 40/94, Art. 8(1)(b)) (see paras 40-41, 51-53, 57-62)
      
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 11 December 2008 (Case R 1049/2007-1) relating
                  to opposition proceedings between Meica Ammerländische Fleischwarenfabrik Fritz Meinen GmbH & Co. KG and Bösinger Fleischwaren
                  GmbH.
               
            Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Annuls the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
                     (OHIM) of 11 December 2008 (Case R 1049/2007-1);
                  
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Meica Ammerländische Fleischwarenfabrik Fritz Meinen GmbH &
                     Co. KG.