CELEX: 62013TA0012
Language: en
Date: 2014-12-11 00:00:00
Title: Case T-12/13: Judgment of the General Court of 11 December 2014  — Sherwin-Williams Sweden v OHIM — Akzo Nobel Coatings International (ARTI) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community trade mark ARTI — Earlier Benelux word mark ARTITUDE and international registration of the earlier Benelux trade mark ARTITUDE — Refusal to register — Likelihood of confusion — Similarity of the signs — Identical or highly similar goods — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

2.2.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 34/34
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 11 December 2014 — Sherwin-Williams Sweden v OHIM — Akzo Nobel Coatings International (ARTI)
   (Case T-12/13) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community trade mark ARTI - Earlier Benelux word mark ARTITUDE and international registration of the earlier Benelux trade mark ARTITUDE - Refusal to register - Likelihood of confusion - Similarity of the signs - Identical or highly similar goods - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   (2015/C 034/38)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Sherwin-Williams Sweden AB (Märsta, Sweden) (represented by: L.-E. Ström, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: J. Crespo Carrillo, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM: Akzo Nobel Coatings International BV (Arnhem, Netherlands)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 18 October 2012 (Case R 2085/2011-1), concerning opposition proceedings between Akzo Nobel Coatings International B V and Sherwin-Williams Sweden Group AB.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1)
            
            
               Dismisses the action.
            
         
               2)
            
            
               Orders Sherwin-Williams Sweden AB to bear the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 86, 23.3.2013.