CELEX: 62010TJ0157
Language: en
Date: 2012-03-23 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Second Chamber) of 23 March 2012. # Barilla G. e R. Fratelli SpA v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for registration of the Community word mark ALIXIR - Earlier national word mark Elixeer - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Similarity of the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009. # Case T-157/10.

Judgment of the General Court (Second Chamber) of 23 March 2012 – Barilla v OHIM – Brauerei Schlösser (ALIXIR)
      (Case T-157/10)
      Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for registration of the Community word mark ALIXIR — Earlier national word mark Elixeer — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Similarity of the signs — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) 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 207/2009, Art. 8(1)(b)) (see paras 29-31)
      
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 25 January 2010 (case R 820/2009-2), relating
                  to opposition proceedings between Brauerei Schlösser GmbH and Barilla G. e R. Fratelli SpA.
               
            Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
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                  	Orders Barilla G. e R. Fratelli SpA to pay the costs.