CELEX: 62009TA0276
Language: en
Date: 2012-06-21 00:00:00
Title: Case T-276/09: Judgment of the General Court of 21 June 2012 — Kavaklidere-Europe v OHIM — Yakult Honsha (Yakut) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the Community word mark Yakut — Earlier Community figurative mark Yakult — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

28.7.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 227/17
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 21 June 2012 — Kavaklidere-Europe v OHIM — Yakult Honsha (Yakut)
   (Case T-276/09) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the Community word mark Yakut - Earlier Community figurative mark Yakult - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)
   2012/C 227/24
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Kavaklidere-Europe (Schoten, Belgium) (represented: initially by J. Vercraeye and I. Tytgat, and subsequently by J. Vercraeye and B. De Vuyst, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: D. Botis, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the General Court: Yakult Honsha Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, Japan) (represented by M. Edenborough QC, P. Harris, Solicitor, and T. Elias, Barrister)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 8 May 2009 (Case R 1396/2008-4) concerning opposition proceedings between Yakult Honsha Kabushiki Kaisha and Kavaklidere-Europe
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The General Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Kavaklidere-Europe to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 244, 10.10.2009.