CELEX: 62009TJ0276
Language: en
Date: 2012-06-21 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 21 June 2012. # Kavaklidere-Europe v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # 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. # Case T-276/09.

Judgment of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 21 June 2012 —Kavaklidere-Europe v OHIM — Yakult Honsha (Yakut)(Case T-276/09)
      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
      1.                     Community trade mark — Appeals procedure — Action before the EU judicature — Jurisdiction of the General Court — Power to
            issue directions — None (Council Regulation No 207/2009, Art. 65(6)) (see para. 17)
      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 — Word mark Yakut and figurative mark Yakult (Council Regulation No 207/2009, Art. 8(1)(b))
            (see paras 56, 57)
      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-Europ.
               
            Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders Kavaklidere-Europe to pay the costs.