CELEX: 62014CN0147
Language: en
Date: 2014-03-28 00:00:00
Title: Case C-147/14: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Hof van beroep te Brussel (Belgium) lodged on 28 March 2014  — Loutfi Management Propriété Intellectuelle SARL v AMJ Meatproducts NV, Halalsupply NV

24.6.2014   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 194/12
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Hof van beroep te Brussel (Belgium) lodged on 28 March 2014 — Loutfi Management Propriété Intellectuelle SARL v AMJ Meatproducts NV, Halalsupply NV
   (Case C-147/14)
   2014/C 194/15
   Language of the case: Dutch
   
      Referring court
   
   Hof van beroep te Brussel
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Appellant: Loutfi Management Propriété Intellectuelle SARL
   
      Respondents: AMJ Meatproducts NV, Halalsupply NV
   
      Question referred
   
   In view of, inter alia, Articles 21 and 22 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, (1) must Article 9(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (2) of 26 February 2009 on the Community trade mark be interpreted as meaning that, in the assessment of the likelihood of confusion between a Community trade mark in which an Arabic word is dominant and a sign in which a different, but visually similar, Arabic word is dominant, the difference in pronunciation and meaning between those words may, or even must, be examined and taken into account by the competent courts of the Member States, even though Arabic is not an official language of the European Union or of the Member States?
   
      (1)  OJ 2000 C 364, p. 1.
   
      (2)  OJ 2009 L 78, p. 1.