CELEX: 62010TJ0557
Language: en
Date: 2012-06-19
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Second Chamber) of 19 June 2012. # H.Eich Srl v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community word mark H.EICH - Earlier national figurative mark H SILVIAN HEACH - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009. # Case T-557/10.

Judgment of the General Court (Second Chamber) of 19 June 2012 —H.Eich v OHIM — Arav (H.EICH)(Case T-557/10)
      Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community word mark H.EICH — Earlier national figurative mark H SILVIAN HEACH — Relative ground for refusal — 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 — Verbal mark H.EICH and figurative mark H SILVIAN HEACH (Council Regulation No 207/2009, Art. 8(1)(b)) (see paras 21-23, 70,
         91)
      
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 9 September 2010 (Case R 1411/2009-1) concerning
                  opposition proceedings between Arav Holding Srl and H.Eich Srl.
               
            Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Annuls the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
                     (OHIM) of 9 September 2010 (Case R 1411/2009-1);
                  
               
            
         
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                  	Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and pay those incurred by H.Eich Srl in the proceedings before the General Court;
               
            
         
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                  	Orders OHIM to pay the costs necessarily incurred for the purposes of the proceedings before the First Board of Appeal;
               
            
         
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                  	Orders Arav Holding Srl to bear its own costs.