CELEX: 62010TA0060
Language: en
Date: 2012-07-06 00:00:00
Title: Case T-60/10: Judgment of the General Court of 6 July 2012 — Jackson International v OHIM — Royal Shakespeare (ROYAL SHAKESPEARE) (Community trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — Community word mark ROYAL SHAKESPEARE — Earlier Community word mark RSC-ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY — Relative grounds for invalidity — Mark with a reputation — Article 53(1)(a) and Article 8(5) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Likelihood of association — Unfair advantage taken of the distinctive character or the repute of the earlier trade mark)

18.8.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 250/13
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 6 July 2012 — Jackson International v OHIM — Royal Shakespeare (ROYAL SHAKESPEARE)
   (Case T-60/10) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - Community word mark ROYAL SHAKESPEARE - Earlier Community word mark RSC-ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY - Relative grounds for invalidity - Mark with a reputation - Article 53(1)(a) and Article 8(5) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Likelihood of association - Unfair advantage taken of the distinctive character or the repute of the earlier trade mark)
   2012/C 250/22
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Jackson International Trading Co. Kurt D. Brühl GmbH & Co. KG (Graz, Austria) (represented by: H.-G. Zeiner and S. Di Natale, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: D. Botis, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the General Court: The Royal Shakespeare Company (Warwickshire, United Kingdom) (represented by: C. Barnett, Solicitor, and S. Malynicz, Barrister)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 19 November 2009 (Case R 317/2009-1), concerning invalidity proceedings between The Royal Shakespeare Company and Jackson International Trading Co. Kurt D. Brühl GmbH & Co. KG.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Jackson International Trading Co. Kurt D. Brühl GmbH & Co. KG to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 100, 17.4.2010.