CELEX: 62012TA0225
Language: en
Date: 2014-02-27 00:00:00
Title: Case T-225/12: Judgment of the General Court of 27 February 2014 — Lidl Stiftung v OHIM — Lídl Music (LIDL express) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the Community figurative mark LIDL express — Earlier national figurative mark LÍDL MUSIC — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Genuine use of the earlier mark — Article 15(1) and Article 42(2) and (3) of Regulation No 207/2009)

7.4.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 102/34
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 27 February 2014 — Lidl Stiftung v OHIM — Lídl Music (LIDL express)
   (Case T-225/12) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the Community figurative mark LIDL express - Earlier national figurative mark LÍDL MUSIC - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Genuine use of the earlier mark - Article 15(1) and Article 42(2) and (3) of Regulation No 207/2009))
   2014/C 102/53
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG (Neckarsulm, Germany) (represented by: initially by M. Schaeffer, M. Wolter and A. Marx, and subsequently by M. Wolter, A. Marx and M. Kefferpütz, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: L. Rampini, Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM: Lídl Music spol. s r.o. (Brno, Czech Republic)
   
      Re:
   
   Action for annulment of the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 21 March 2012 (Case R 2379/2010-1) relating to opposition proceedings between Lídl Music spol. s r.o. and Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 227, 28.7.2012.