CELEX: 62011CO0599
Language: en
Date: 2012-06-28 00:00:00
Title: Order of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 28 June 2012. # TofuTown.com GmbH v Meica Ammerländische Fleischwarenfabrik Fritz Meinen GmbH & Co. KG and Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Appeal - Article 119 of the Rules of Procedure - Community trade mark - Application for registration of the word sign 'TOFUKING' - Opposition by the proprietor of the trade mark Curry King - Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Article 8(1)(b) - Likelihood of confusion - Degree of similarity. # Case C-599/11 P.

Order of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 28 June 2012 —TofuTown.com v Meica and OHIM 
      (Case C-599/11 P)
      Appeal — Article 119 of the Rules of Procedure — Community trade mark — Application for registration of the word sign ‘TOFUKING’ — Opposition by the proprietor of the trade mark Curry King — Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Article 8(1)(b) — Likelihood of confusion — Degree of similarity
      1.                     Appeals — Grounds — Grounds which are manifestly inadmissible or manifestly unfounded — Rejection (Rules of Procedure of the
            Court, Art. 119) (see paras 17-36)
      2.                     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 — Criteria for assessment (Council Regulation No 207/2009, Art. 8(1)(b)) (see paras 29-31)
      Re:
      
         Appeal against the judgment of the General Court (Second Chamber) of 20 September 2011 in Case T-99/10 
               Meica
                v 
               OHIM
                — 
               TofuTown.com
                (
               TOFUKING
               ), in which the General Court annulled the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 7 January 2010 (Case R 63/2009-4)
                  concerning opposition proceedings between Meica Ammerländische Fleischwarenfabrik Fritz Meinen GmbH & Co. KG and TofuTown.com
                  GmbH — Likelihood of confusion.
               
            Operative part: 
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	The appeal is dismissed.
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	TofuTown.com GmbH is ordered to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by Meica Ammerländische Fleischwarenfabrik
                     Fritz Meinen GmbH & Co. KG.
                  
               
            
         
                  3.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	The Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) is ordered to bear its own costs.