CELEX: 62010TJ0143
Language: en
Date: 2011-11-10
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) of 10 November 2011. # Ben-Ri Electrónica, SA v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community figurative mark LT LIGHT-THECNO - Earlier Community figurative mark LT - Relative ground for refusal - Similarity of the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009. # Case T-143/10.

Judgment of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) of 10 November 2011 – Ben Ri Electrónica v OHIM – Sacopa (LT LIGHT-THECNO)
      (Case T-143/10)
      Community trade mark – Opposition proceedings – Application for Community figurative mark LT LIGHT-THECNO – Earlier Community figurative mark LT – Relative ground for refusal – 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 19, 41-43)
      
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 3 February 2010 (Case R 1625/2008‑4), relating
                  to opposition proceedings between Ben Ri Electrónica, SA and Sacopa, SA.
               
            Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Annuls the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and
                     Designs) (OHIM) of 3 February 2010 (Case R 1625/2008-4);
                  
               
            
         
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                  	Dismisses the action as to the remainder; 
               
            
         
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                  	Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Ben-Ri Electrónica, SA.