CELEX: 62010TJ0174
Language: en
Date: 2011-09-22 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) of 22 September 2011.#ara AG v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM).#Community trade mark - Opposition procedure - International registration covering the European Community - Figurative mark A with two triangular motifs - Earlier national word mark A - Relative ground for refusal - No likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009.#Case T-174/10.

Judgment of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) of 22 September 2011 – ara v OHIM – Allrounder (A with two rectangular motifs)
      (Case T-174/10)
      Community trade mark – Opposition procedure – International registration covering the European Community – Figurative mark A with two triangular motifs – Earlier national word mark A – Relative ground for refusal – No likelihood of confusion – 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 22-24, 38)
      
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 26 January 2010 (Case R 481/2009-1) concerning
                  opposition proceedings between ara AG and Allrounder SARL.
               
            Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders ara AG to pay the costs.