CELEX: 62011CO0354
Language: en
Date: 2012-03-22 00:00:00
Title: Order of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 22 March 2012. # Maurice Emram v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Appeal - Article 119 of the Rules of Procedure - Community trade mark - Regulation (EC) No 40/94 - Article 8(1)(b) - Application for registration of the figurative mark G - Trade marks. # Case C-354/11 P.

Order of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 22 March 2012 —Emram v OHIM(Case C‑354/11 P)
      Appeal — Article 119 of the Rules of Procedure — Community trade mark — Regulation (EC) No 40/94 — Article 8(1)(b) — Application for registration of the figurative mark G — Trade marks
      1.                     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 — Earlier mark only weakly distinctive — Effect (Council Regulation No 40/94, Art. 8(1)(b))
            (see para. 44)
      2.                     Appeals — Grounds — Incorrect assessment of the facts and evidence — Inadmissibility — Review by the Court of the assessment
            of the facts and evidence — Possible only where the clear sense of the evidence has been distorted (Art. 256(1), TFEU; Statute
            of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.) (see para. 48)
      3.                     Community trade mark — Decisions of the Office — Whether lawful — Examination by the Community judicature — Criteria (Council
            Regulation No 40/94) (see para. 92)
      Re: 
      
         Appeal brought against the judgment of the General Court (Second Chamber) of 10 May 2011 in Case T‑187/10 
               Emram
                v 
               OHIM 
               dismissing the action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 11 February 2010 (Case R 1281/2008-1)
                  relating to opposition proceedings between Guccio Gucci SpA and Mr Emram — Article 8(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009
                  of 26 February 2009 on the Community trade mark (OJ 2009 L 78, p. 1) — Application for Community figurative mark G — Likelihood
                  of confusion — Distortion of the evidence — Incorrect assessment of the distinctive character — Infringement of the principle
                  of equal treatment.
               
            Operative part 
      
         
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                  	The appeal is dismissed.
               
            
         
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                  	Mr Emram is ordered to pay the costs.