CELEX: 62012TA0149
Language: en
Date: 2014-01-16 00:00:00
Title: Case T-149/12: Judgment of the General Court of 16 January 2014 — Investrónica, SA v OHIM — Olympus Imaging (MICRO) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the Community figurative mark MICRO — Earlier national figurative mark micro — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Similarity of the signs — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009 — Power to alter decisions)

22.2.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 52/34
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 16 January 2014 — Investrónica, SA v OHIM — Olympus Imaging (MICRO)
   (Case T-149/12) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the Community figurative mark MICRO - Earlier national figurative mark micro - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Similarity of the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009 - Power to alter decisions)
   2014/C 52/62
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Investrónica, SA (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: E. Seijo Veiguela and J.L. Rivas Zurdo, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: P. Geroulakos, Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the General Court: Olympus Imaging Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) (represented by: C. Opatz, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 31 January 2012 (Case R 347/2011-4), relating to opposition proceedings between Investrónica, SA and Olympus Imaging Corp.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 31 January 2012 (Case R 347/2011-4).
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Allows the opposition with regard to the goods covered by Class 9 and corresponding to the following description: ‘Photographic apparatus and instruments, digital cameras, interchangeable lenses, and parts and accessories therefor as far as included in Class 9’.
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders OHIM to bear its own costs, together with half of the costs incurred by Investrónica, SA.
            
         
               4.
            
            
               Orders Olympus Imaging Corp. to bear its own costs, together with half of the costs incurred by Investrónica, SA.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 194, 30.6.2012.